Seventy Little Heads

Goudan stuffed a basket into Wang Xuan's hand, and he himself carried a small snakeskin bag and a machete, and told Li Si to go to Hongding Mountain.

He took two black steamed buns and ran away like a gust of wind with Wang Xuan. Li Si opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything against him.

The place Goudan is going to is not close to Xikan Village. In the past, there was a Taoist temple in front of the hill. It was small in scale but very famous, because it is said that the first master of the Taoist temple there was later ascended, and many good men and women came here admiringly. heyday.

It has existed for a long time, and it is difficult to determine whether it is true or not, but I heard from the elderly that the oldest old man in the village told them when they were young that the Taoist temple has existed for much longer than the nearby villages.

It's just that I don't know when the Taoist temple has gradually declined.Later, after a long period of war and chaos, there were fewer and fewer Taoist priests, and fewer and fewer people came. Only the nearby villagers would occasionally go up to the mountain to burn incense and make wishes, and only donate to ask for children and divination. Sesame money.

Anyway, many people can't tell the difference between Taoism and Buddha. Anyway, it's always right to find a place to worship if something happens. Who cares whether it's the Taishang Laojun or the bald Buddha?Anyway, they are all gods, aren't they all a family?Many people are like this, it doesn't matter which god they worship, as long as it is useful, no matter if they have long hair or baldness, they are all the same, no difference!

As for this Taoist temple, about 20 years ago, after the death of the last temple master, the Taoist temple had no Taoist priests at all, and it became a broken brick and tile overgrown with weeds in the wild.

In the years of famine, even the golden fish in front of Guanqian were fished out and eaten.Seven or eight years ago, when the Four Olds were destroyed, it was smashed in the air by the guards who came all the way from the county.

Now there are no tiles on the roof, and broken bricks and rubble are scattered all over the place. It has become a paradise for small animals.

Of course, Goudan went there because there is a kind of bamboo growing there, which is different from the bamboo around the village.There is a place in the Taoist temple that grows bamboo for some reason, and it is also green in winter, and the bamboo shoots are crisp and delicious.The old people said that it was because the bamboo next to the temple master was also contaminated with fairy spirit when he became a fairy. No one knows or cares whether it is true or not.

Later, some knowledgeable people said that it was because the place where the small bamboo forest happened to grow was in a mountain valley, where the wind and snow could not blow, and there might be hot springs and so on.

But there used to be some other fruit trees planted there, and Goudan went for these.

Counting the nearby villages, Xikan Village is the closest to it. However, there is no fertile soil for cultivation near the Taoist temple. It is all gravel, so the Taoist temple still exists independently. Although there are only broken bricks and tiles left, there is no one. occupy.

Goudan held a stick, beat the grass, and led Wang Xuan forward. On the mountainside, there was a small open space, which seemed to be a whole big rock, and the surface was chiseled flat to become a small square.There are shrubs and weeds all around, only its surface is bare, and there are eight trigrams drawn on it consisting of yin and yang fish.

"Brother Goudan, what's here?" Wang Xuan rubbed the middle of the pattern with his feet, but of course there was nothing wrong with the pattern.

"I have everything, maybe I can find a pheasant coop." Goudan said indifferently, since few people come here, maybe they are lucky?

Goudan pulled down his pants, turned around and began to pee. He was still playing, peeing out a pattern.

Goudanmao stooped, he searched every tree one by one, and all the bird nests he saw were harmed by him and Wang Xuan.

For most of the day, put all the eggs in the largest bird's nest and gather them together, and those empty nests are still left on the tree fork.

Green, purple, white speckled eggs of all kinds, today they are in a terrible mess.

"Brother Goudan, come quickly, I saw something good."

"What? Wait a minute."

Goudan Salsa's dripping grass went down to the right side of a steep slope, where there were several apricot trees, and now there were yellow apricots hanging on the branches.

"So many? Hurry up and eat to see if it's sweet or not." Goudan stretched out his hand and hooked the hanging branches, picked one off and put it in his mouth after blowing.

"Sour, not tasty."

Wang Xuan couldn't wait to pick several of them and held them in his arms before picking out one to eat.He smacked his lips twice and found it to be okay, sour and sweet, not unpalatable.

"Go back and peel the skin and soak it in salt water for a while. It's delicious, Brother Goudan, let's pick more?"

"Pick it." The dog eggs are easy to talk to, anyway, these don't have owners, so eat whatever you want.

The two children were happily picking apricots with their baskets. Goudan stepped on the high branches, picked those small branches with dense fruit and cut them off directly, and the branches with the big fruits fell to the ground with a bang.Wang Xuan picked them up below, and soon the basket was full.

The two picked too much when they were happy, Wang Xuan couldn't lift it, and Goudan and Goudan dragged up the steep slope, back to the bare "small square", and then put the basket in the basket. Apricots fell in piles on the ground.

"Don't pick it up, we can't move it back, it's too heavy, anyway, you can come every day in the future."

After figuring this out, Wang Xuan stopped looking at those apricot trees, but put a few in his pocket, and gnawed on them while peeling bamboo shoots, like a squirrel.

"Brother Goudan, we are below, but our things are all on top, will someone steal it?"

"Then let's talk louder, and others won't dare to take it when they hear it."

Basket after basket of bamboo shoots was dumped in the middle of the open space. The two finally decided to dig them out and pick them up, then sit and peel the shells. Maybe they thought it would be easier and faster?

After getting hotter and hotter, the two moved under a tree, cleaned up the weeds briefly, and sat cross-legged to eat the steamed buns they brought in the morning.

"Ah, I can't bite anymore, Brother Goudan, do you think I have to change my teeth too?"

Wang Xuan bared his teeth and asked Goudan to help him see, Goudan looked at him decently, and even pressed his teeth with his hands, but found that they were not moving at all.

"It's not loose, it's not time yet." Goudan's two front teeth have fallen out, and one of them has grown a little and a half, and it looks bigger than the original deciduous teeth.The other one is temporarily empty, which makes his bite particularly inconvenient, and he has to put it on the side teeth to bite.

Wang Xuan closed his mouth, and started to touch it himself. He really didn't look loose as Goudan said, and patted himself on the head, "Did I eat too many apricots?" No wonder his teeth were sour.

Knowing the reason, the two were relieved again, and ran around again after eating.More than half of the old buildings here are almost covered by plants, but the basic building direction can still be seen clearly, and the outline of the foundation is still there.

"Look, Wang Xuan, there is a deep well here. Hey, hey." Goudan used bamboo poles to pick up the vines to expose the well mouth, and there was a well wall about Goudan's thigh height beside the well.

Goudan seemed to have discovered a new world, and he shouted excitedly into the well. The well seemed to be very deep, and Goudan's voice seemed to echo in it, and it seemed to swing deep.A gust of cold wind blows upwards, lying on the side of the well, the dog in summer feels a little cool.

Just thinking about how there would be a cold wind in the well, Wang Xuan came up from behind, because he was running fast, he was used to being next to Goudan, but he didn't expect that Goudan just wanted to get up and turn to talk to him.

This coincidence caused Goudan to bump into him. Goudan suddenly lost his footing, his entire center of gravity moved forward, and he fell headlong into the well.In an emergency, his brain only had time to grab to the side, but he didn't expect that what he grabbed was unreliable, and Wang Xuan, who was closest to him, was also dragged down.

The two children screamed in fright, and the wind in the well became more violent, as if gushing out of nowhere, which made the two children fall a little slower, and landed on the shoulders of such an asshole, causing him to die of pain .Wang Xuan was better, he didn't know what happened, just rolled around and was not injured.

The light below the well was dim, and there was no water, but no one at this meeting noticed this.Wang Xuan cried and yelled and didn't forget to call him Brother Goudan.

Goudan hugged his arms and fucked there, but fortunately there were no fatal injuries.What happened today is really blessed by the ancestors, otherwise I fell into the well like this, not to mention how deep the well is and how high the water level is, but if my head hits the ground, either my head will bloom or my neck will be broken.

It was the strong wind that slowed them down, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

But they were too young to think of this, and found that they were not seriously injured and could still speak, so they shouted for help out of fear.

Wang Xuan was really terrified. In the dark well, he didn't know how deep they fell.He crawled towards the place where Goudan made the sound with both hands, and just touched Goudan's grinning mouth, "You stuffed my mouth with your hand, it's full of dirt, bah bah!"

Goudan shrinks back in fright, "Brother Goudan, Brother Goudan, do you feel any pain?"

"I'm in pain everywhere." Tears flowed down, it hurt him to death, it felt like his shoulders were all aching.

"Woooo, what should we do then? We don't have any medicine, what if we fall down and can't get up? Will we die, wah wah wah."

Goudan is also crying, he is also afraid, and also afraid of death, he is still young, his wife has not yet married, he does not want to die.

So Goudan also whined and joined the crying team. He was half in pain and half really sad, feeling that he might really be dying.For a while, the underground was very lively.

The two hugged each other and cried for a while, then shouted until their voices became hoarse, tired, and found that they were all right!At least they are not dead yet, but looking up at the top of the top of the circle of the mouth of the well, want to cry aloud, how are they going to go up.

"Brother Goudan, I, I'm scared."

Goudan sobbed and said: "Don't be afraid, Dad will come to save us." Sniffing, I can only count on this, what else should I do?Let’s not talk about whether we can climb up, just say that calling people is useless. They have been crying for so long but no one has come, and few people come here for chopping firewood.

Unless they came here for bamboo shoots like them, Goudan dare not have this thought, what if the person who came has already been here a few days ago, or will someone come after a while?Aren't they all cold?

"Why did you hit me?"

"I'm sorry Brother Goudan." Wang Xuan felt guilty and afraid when he thought about it. It was his own fault, otherwise they wouldn't have fallen.

"Forget it."

At the same time, the sun was in the sky, and the light in the well was slowly absorbed by the old well, making it look much brighter.

"You said how deep the well is and how much water there is... By the way, why is there no water?"

"Maybe there is no water? Hey, if there is water, we can still drink water and wait for my father to save us." After crying for so long, and frightened to death, I feel thirsty now.

No matter how precocious the little people are, they are still children themselves. When encountering such a thing, they long for the protection of their parents, and that is their only hope.

Goudan misses his father Li Si very much at this moment, but what if his father can't find them? He doesn't know what they will do underground?

"Don't cry, keep your voice open, and call out loud when my father comes looking for someone." Goudan looked up at the exit, wondering how loud they had to shout in such a deep well before people outside could hear them?

"Brother Goudan, do you think there will be ghosts here?"

In such a dark place, there is a lot of fear in vain. At this time, listening to all kinds of ghost stories made by the old people in the village is full of head.Goudan's face is also pale, ghost, who is not afraid? !

"Nonsense!" Goudan suddenly yelled at Wang Xuan, making him tremble. "The great man said that all ghosts and snakes are paper tigers. Where are there any ghosts? Don't be afraid. I have a knife. Oh, by the way, where is my knife?"

Wang Xuan was a little confused, what is a paper tiger?It felt weird, anyway, he had never heard anyone say that.

"Knife? It should have fallen too, let's look for it."

In the dim light, the two began to grope, touching rotten leaves and wet soil in their hands, but found nothing.

"Where did it go?"