fictionpage Chapter 301
Chapter 301
Chapter 301
"It's here, it's here!"
After walking through the gullies for a long time, Lu Lu preliminarily estimated that after eating, he turned over eight or nine hills. When the evening approached, Jiang Zewei, who had been leading the way, finally stopped and said something in a vicissitudes of life.
A group of people searched around in the dark woods on the hillside, but they found only green eyes, and no trace of the tomb could be seen.
"Walk down a hundred meters, there will be water under a big tree, the water can be drunk, and a little bit higher up, there is a flat land, where we will build a house, this land, I have seen it before, it is a place to go It’s a good place for Bangmai, it looks like there are few people here, so it should be able to sell a lot of goods.”
Jiang Zewei took a deep breath, turned around and gave orders to several people.
None of them said much, and walked up the hillside for a while, and they saw a flat open space.
So they each took their knives, cleaned up the surrounding weeds, and then began to set up tents and gather fire.
Chen Xiuqing carried the hanging pot and went down to find water. After a while, she came back with two hanging pots of water.
After a short rest, Jiang Zewei asked Liang Kangbo for a sickle, and then walked into the forest.
"You guys are busy first, I'll follow and have a look!"
Lu Lu greeted a few people, and followed Jiang Zewei into the woods with a semi-automatic and a rope stick, helping to greet them all the way.
He didn't go very far, and Jiang Zewei stopped in front of a large vine.
"That's right here, my Tianxing brother, I'm buried here."
Jiang Zewei silently looked at the large vines, then slowly squatted down, raised the sickle in his hand, and began to clean up the surrounding debris.
"Master, let me come!"
This large canopy of plants, vines, weeds and thorns intertwined, occupied a large area, and it took a lot of effort to clean it up.
"No, I can do it myself. This is the first time in my life to sweep my brother's grave, and it will be the last time in my life!"
Jiang Zewei smiled bitterly at Lu Lu, and turned back to continue the work at hand.
He did it very slowly and carefully, pulling out the weeds one by one, cleaning up the vines one by one, and cutting off the thorns one by one.
It took a quarter of an hour to vaguely see a small mound surrounded by stones. If Jiang Zewei hadn't said it was a tomb, anyone else would never have recognized it.
Suddenly, Lu Lu noticed something moving inside, and he quickly grabbed Jiang Zewei's hand, which was about to grab the next cane.
"Master, you have money!" Lu Lu said in a low voice.
Jiang Zewei turned his head and looked inside, and sure enough, he saw a soil ball snake coming out of the cracks in the rocks.
This soil ball snake was thicker than the one Lu Lu saw last time, and it was also much bigger. It looked creepy.
Fortunately, it didn't linger too much, it wandered towards the weeds beside it, and soon disappeared.
After confirming that it was safe, Jiang Zewei continued to clean up.
It took another half an hour before the vines, thorns and surrounding weeds that were overgrown on the tomb were cleaned up.
Zhao Yongke, Liang Kangbo and Chen Xiuqing had already gathered around.
They had finished the work at hand, and the food was ready. They came to watch from the sidelines, without disturbing Jiang Zewei, and just watched silently, with complicated expressions on their faces.
"Brother Tianxing, it's been almost 40 years, brother, I'm here to see you!"
Looking at this small mound, Jiang Zewei sighed a long time: "I think back when we brothers became sworn brothers, we also said that we have the same blessings and share the difficulties, but I didn't expect that you helped us to avoid the difficulties, but we didn't enjoy the same benefits." Fu... my brother is not capable. I have been wanting to come to this mountain for so many years, but I can't. Today I finally got my wish.
The second elder brother Ni is gone too, he was harmed by the little days, now only me, Ming Hai and Yue Wang are left, they are all people who are going to die soon, maybe in a few years, we brothers will be able to reunite. "
After he finished speaking, he limped to the side of the tent, took off a cloth bag from the donkey tied to the side, returned to the grave, and after glancing at Lu Lu and the others: "The meal is ready, help Get me some drinks!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xiuqing ran back quickly without Lu Lulu's words. After a while, she came back with a bowl of rice. There were a lot of cooked meat, wild vegetables, and mushrooms piled on top of the millet rice.
This guy is very honest. Originally, he only needs to make a little of the same rice and water, as long as there is a symbolic meaning. His big bowl is more like a gift for someone to eat.
However, it was also because of this sincerity that when Jiang Zewei saw this bowl of food, he smiled and took a deep look at Chen Xiuqing. He turned his head and said to Lu Lu: "You uncle, you will have to take care of yourself in the future." Wait for him."
Lu Lu nodded: "I will!"
Jiang Zewei put the full bowl of food in Chen Xiuqing's hand in front of the grave, and opened the cloth bag next to it. Only then did Lu Lu see that there were a lot of paper money and incense inside.
When he took out the grave paper, Lu Lu hurriedly cut a branch from the side and handed it to Jiang Zewei, watching him tie the grave paper to the branch and insert it on the grave, lit incense, and burned some paper money.
Lu Lu took a deep breath and knelt down in front of the grave.
"What are you doing?" Seeing Lu Lu knelt down, Jiang Zewei was a little surprised: "You are not related to Brother Tianxing, you don't need to do this!"
"Master, I have obtained your inheritance, and I have formed a great relationship with you. He is your brother. How can you say that he is not related to you? Besides, the dead is the greatest. As a junior, I should also pay homage. Besides, With the loyalty between you..."
Hearing what Lu Lu said, Chen Xiuqing also followed and knelt down beside Lu Lu, followed by Liang Kangbo and Zhao Yongke.
Looking at these people, for a moment, Jiang Zewei burst into tears, and said in a trembling voice: "They are all gentlemen, good!"
The three of them got up one after another after praying three times in succession, and when Jiang Zewei burned the paper money, they also burned some.
After the work was done, Jiang Zewei wiped away his tears, greeted them with a smile, let's go, everyone went back to eat.
The few people returned to sit on the ground by the fire, having a dull meal, and when the meal was over, it was already dark.
At this moment, Jiang Zewei took two bowls and his big bag of paper money, put the wine on the table, and said to them, "Go to bed early tonight, don't worry about me."
After speaking, he returned to the grave, poured himself a large bowl full of wine, burned paper money in front of the grave, and talked to himself, drinking wine and muttering.
Lu Lu and the others did not bother.
After watching silently for a while, Lu Lu said to the three of them: "You all go to bed early, I will keep watch tonight!"
Seeing Jiang Zewei like this, I'm afraid it won't be over for a while, he has to accompany him, and he has to guard against wild animals.
The three of Chen Xiuqing didn't say much, they all got into the tent and slept.
Lu Lu was sitting by the fire, watching from a distance the old man drinking wine from time to time under the light of the paper money fire in front of the grave.
He didn't expect that this guard would last for one night.
Miss half my life, drink all night!
Jiang Zewei seemed to want to make up for what he had never been able to do in his life. The big bag of paper money was burned all night, the incense was burned all night, the wine was drunk all night, and he muttered all night.
It wasn't until dawn that Chen Xiuqing and the others woke up, and Jiang Zewei staggered back and smiled at them: "I'll sleep for a while, when I wake up, let's worship the God of the Mountain and press down on the mountain." .”
After speaking, he got into the tent and lay down, and soon fell asleep.
"Brother Lu, go to sleep too, you've been up all night." Chen Xiuqing said from the side: "We will take good care of the horses and ingots."
Lu Lu nodded, and followed into the tent to lie down.
When he woke up, it was already noon, and he was woken up by the sweltering heat in the tent. He saw Chen Xiuqing and the others busy cooking, and even Jiang Zewei was already up.
It seemed that they were all waiting for Lu Lu.
"Why don't you call me!" Lu Lu smiled embarrassedly.
"Looking for a stick is a meticulous job, and you need to nourish your energy...Okay, now that you're awake, let's get ready and worship the mountain god."
It seems that the knot in his heart has been untied, and Jiang Zewei looks a lot more relaxed.
Lu Lu got out of the tent and saw the foot of a big red pine tree next to him. He built a simple "small temple" with three stones, put a piece of bark inside, and wrote the tablet of the mountain god with charcoal on it. This is also called the Lord's Mansion.
"Before entering the mountain, we should choose an auspicious day to worship the mountain god. However, it is better to hit the sun when we choose a day. Every day is auspicious, so let's worship today!"
Jiang Zewei is not rigid.After washing his face at the water source under Lu Lu and returning, he greeted several people to the Lord's mansion, offered sacrifices, and after kneeling down, he greeted several people: "Bring rice!"
There are quite a lot of rules in Fangshan, even the daily speech has rules.
For example, eating is called "Nafan", sleeping is called "Najue", and changing one's residence is called "Najue", all of which mean to "get" the stick.
As for the worship just now, there are also particular points.
Fangshan people worship, one is the legendary old man Sun, begging him to bless Fangshan to get big goods, and another mountain god, that is Big Claw, Big Claw is the king of beasts, worshiping it is for Let it protect a group of people from being invaded by wild beasts.
The meals were placed on the grass covered with pine needles, and a group of people sat around and began to eat.
Jiang Zewei asked with a smile while eating: "Did you sleep well last night?"
"It's all good!"
……
Just kidding, Lu Lu greeted him all night, everyone was quite at ease with him, how could they not sleep well.
"Did anyone dream of anything?" Jiang Zewei asked again.
Zhao Yongke shook his head, saying that he was not dreaming.
Liang Kangbo smiled: "I made one. I dreamed that a gold ingot came to my yard, and it croaked all night."
Hearing this, Jiang Zewei immediately laughed: "Sweet dream, we will definitely get a big deal this time."
The so-called gold ingots here refer to toads, which are auspicious omens for mountain hunters just like snakes are called money strings.
Afterwards, Jiang Zewei looked at Chen Xiuqing: "Qingzi, did you dream about anything?"
Chen Xiuqing's face suddenly became weird, and he faltered, "I dreamed...a dream..."
Lu Lu glanced at him, seeing his deja vu expression, and began to wonder if this guy was dreaming of "Swallow" again.
Then again, is such a dream a good omen?
Just as I wanted him to stop talking, it was already too late, but I heard Chen Xiuqing say: "I dreamed of an old woman..."
Jiang Zewei's eyes widened, and then he laughed again: "It's also a good omen!"
Lu Lu breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately it wasn't the swallow this time, if he dreamed of the swallow again, Lu Lu would start to wonder if the catheter had leaked.
(End of this chapter)