Chapter 1: Up the Nine Snakes Mountain

The sound of a bell ringing spread, the village young and old, have gathered in an open space outside the village committee. Each one of them exchanged words and began to discuss. Wang Baifu is the village head of this village a thin man in his early fifties, he stood in the crowd with his coat on, measured steps, looked a little annoyed, suddenly shouted: "Stop arguing, what's the point of arguing, now after twelve o'clock, time's up." A tall man in the crowd, with a loud voice, said with some concern: "Village chief can this work?" Everyone else looked at the village chief, no one said anything, but the atmosphere was very depressing. Village Chief Wang looked at these villagers, frowned and said towards the crowd, "Where is Master Nie?" An old man walked out from the crowd, although Master Nie was almost eighty, but he still looked very tough, he began to worry, his heart was clear about Village Chief Wang's intentions, "Village Chief what's the matter" he asked carefully. Village Chief Wang walked forward, patted his shoulder, and smiled, "Master Nie, where is your grandson Nie Mu?" The old man's body trembled for a moment, not knowing how to answer when the villagers began to clamor; they all knew what the village chief meant. Grandpa Nie, however, didn't know what to do and said, "Village Chief Wang, he should be at home sleeping, there's been a lot of work at home these past few days, he's too tired." "Really? Oh," the village chief laughed. His voice became more conciliatory, "Don't be afraid, Master Nie, we won't kick him out of the village, we just want to ask him for a favor." With that, he looked at the crowd. Said, "I, Wang Dafu, am now clearly telling everyone that if, moncler niemao's grandson, Nie Mou, makes a trip up the mountain right now to help us find out what happened, I promise that in the future, I will never allow anyone to say anything about driving him out of the village." Master Nie was a bit hesitant, he knew that if he let his grandson go to the mountain, he would be in a very bad situation. But if he didn't agree, they would again bring up the matter of letting him leave the village, and he was hesitating. The villagers began to talk to each other, the general meaning is that if he does not agree, his grandson Niemu will not be able to stay, even he will not stay here. Grandpa Nie was helpless and slowly said, "Okay, I promise everyone." In this situation now, moncler Nie can only promise first before saying anything. Wang Village Chief and Nie moncler outlet online together to his home, into the house, Nie moncler outlet online asked Wang Village Chief to first sit down for a while, he went into the house to call his grandson. When he walked into Nie Mou's room he was already in old tears, wiped away the tears on his face and shouted twice. But no one responded, he turned on the light to see, Nie Mou is not in bed, see he is not in, Nie's heart on the contrary, some joy. When he was wondering what to tell Village Chief Wang, Nie Mao's voice came from outside, and the old man sighed helplessly. When Village Chief Wang saw Nie Mu, he piled on a smile and said, "Where have you been Nie Mu, your grandfather and I just happened to come looking for you." Standing at the doorway was a young man with a cold, moony face, and he was Nie Mo. Wang Village Chief's skinny body looked like a child in front of him, Nie Mu's cold face swept over with displeasure, coldly saying, "What are you doing here, where's my grandfather." Wang village chief is not angry, smiled and was about to speak, Nie grandpa has come over "A end, where have you been". As soon as he saw his grandfather, Nie Mao smiled and busied himself by going over to help him sit down. "I didn't do anything, just went out for a walk." Grandpa Nie looked at him with some sadness, and Nie Mo of course saw the strangeness in his grandfather's expression, and he also understood that this village chief's visit to his home was certainly nothing good. Turning to Village Chief Wang, he said, "What's the matter with the village chief coming to my house." "Nie Mo ah, I did come to your house for something, how about this, and let your grandfather speak." Grandpa Nie sighed and said, "Ah Mu, the village chief and the people in the village want you to go up to Nine Snake Mountain before dawn." Nie Mu understood at once, although he didn't know why he was now letting himself go to that Nine Snake Mountain, he knew that this Village Chief Wang's gourd definitely wasn't selling any good medicine. Seeing that he didn't react worrying that he wouldn't go, Village Chief Wang busily said, "Nie Mu ah, we've already promised your grandfather that as long as you go, we won't kick you out of the village anymore." Nie Mu looked at Village Chief Wang with a sneer in his eyes and said, "If I hadn't let go of my grandfather, I wouldn't have wanted to stay in this hellhole." Hearing his words, Village Chief Wang's face changed for a moment, and he wanted to angrily reprimand him for a few sentences, but on second thought, he didn't lash out. He laughed and said, "Good, good, you have a point, but if you go, in the future, the villagers won't want to drive you out of the village for three days, even your grandfather doesn't need to worry about you, you see he's old and can't afford to be tossed around." Nie Mo was furious, walked up two steps, coldly said, "Give the old man get out, but also said reasonable, there is no king law." Village Chief Wang was a little scared in his heart when he saw this posture. Standing up, he took a few steps back towards the door. As he walked, he said, "Master Nie, look at this, he even wants to hit people. Good, don't go, then from tomorrow the whole village will come to your door to see how much you can fight alone. If I don't drive you out of this village, I won't be this village head anymore." Grand Master Nie stood up and pretended to reprimand Nie Mu for a few sentences, walked over to Village Chief Wang and said, "Village Chief Wang, don't be angry, you go back first, I'll talk to him." Village Chief Wang glanced at him, snorted coldly, and said, "Fine, if he doesn't go, you know the consequences." His words only fell. Nie Moyi walked forward, and as soon as he did, he grabbed Village Chief Wang's collar, lifted him up, and said fiercely, "You're threatening my grandfather, aren't you?" Village Chief Wang was trembling with fear and said in a trembling voice, "Grandpa Nie, look at you." "Ah Mu, let go of the village chief, what are you doing." Grand Master Nie was busy pulling Nie Mu, seeing that he had no intention of letting go, his voice became a little angry "Why don't you even listen to Grandpa's words." With a bang, Nie Mu threw Village Chief Wang out the door and landed heavily on the ground. Wang village head grunted, climbed up and ran while cursing. "Damn, how dare you curse." Nie Mo said and tried to chase after him again. Only to hear his grandfather let out a broken cry, "Don't chase after him, do you really want everyone to run to the咋们家 tomorrow." "Grandpa! For so many years, he, and which of the people in this village aren't thinking about how to drive us out of the village every day." Grandpa Nie's eyes had gotten moist, but he didn't say anything, walking back inside and sitting down. Nie Mo saw this and knew that he had made his grandfather angry, and did not dare to speak in, even though he had a lot of anger in his heart and had held it in for so many years. "Ai," his grandfather sighed and said, "I know they want you to go to Nine Snake Mountain, but they actually don't want you to come back. Since you were a child you had no friends, and everyone in the village thought you were ominous, who asked you to be the one I carried back from the graveyard." Hearing his grandfather's words, let him recall that he was grandfather from the graveyard report back not long, the village had a plague, died some people, livestock also died a lot of people in the village at once this and their connection, from then on also regarded themselves as a plague, and later the city came to check, although from the scientific aspect of the explanation of the reason, but in the village people's heart early regarded him as a plague. "Don't say it grandpa, I know you for me suffered a lot of grievances. Let's leave this village together, I can support you." The old man revealed a very pleased expression, looking at him with a peaceful face, saying, "I know, you're very filial, grandpa I've been living in this mountain for almost eighty years, how can I be willing to leave here. You are different, you can go out of this mountain and look around, you are only in your early twenties and still young." "You know I won't leave you," looking at his grandfather's hunched over body Nie Mao's heart sank, adding, "I will definitely honor you." "I know, Ah Mu will definitely bring people to look for you tomorrow by the village chief, you'd better go and leave this village. As long as you are well Grandpa will be relieved" Nie Mu thought about it but said, "I won't leave, isn't it just Nine Snake Mountain, I'll go." He thought of Mayor Wang's words, his grandfather really couldn't withstand the tossing and turning, and since his grandfather was unwilling to leave here with himself, he knew he had no choice. "No way, aren't you going up to the Nine Snakes Mountain just as bad as it gets." "I know it's dangerous to go up the Nine Snakes Mountain, grandpa didn't you also go up this mountain a long time ago?" "Ai, that time the situation was special." Said Grandpa Nie also did not want to talk about it, his heart is very reluctant to recall that period of the past. The old man looked at him and did not know what to say, he knew that if he wanted to do something, he was saying nothing. So he stood up. Walking toward the inner room, Nie Mo did not know what his grandfather was going to do, and followed him in. The old man rummaged around the room and took out a short knife, the blade was hidden in a sheath made of cowhide, the old man pulled out the knife was about a foot long and two inches wide. It looked very sharp, nothing else special, but it was permeated with an air of yin and cold, glowing with a light blue light. The old man handed the knife to Nie Mu and said in a serious tone, "This was given to me by a person many years ago, and it is very sharp. I used it once a long time ago and haven't been using it since, now you take it for defense." Nie Mo held the knife and actually had an indescribable feeling of excitement as he said, "I know grandpa, don't worry, I'll definitely come back safely." The old man turned around and wiped the corners of his eyes, then said, "I'll go get you some steamed bread and water to eat when you go up the mountain." Nie Mao inserted the knife back into the sheath and followed his grandfather out, all the time watching the old man's busy figure, there were some tears in his eyes, it's really true that men don't cry lightly, they just haven't gotten to the place where they are sad. Later, the old man has been instructing Nie Mou, if you detect any danger, do not continue to walk into the mountain. This Nine Snakes Mountain, there have been many years no one really went in. Grandpa had been there once when he was small, it was also a helpless move, at that time was to avoid the Japanese devils who swept the village, that time into the mountain are more people, but later down but very few, no one knows what happened. After the liberation of some people went up, but did not come back, from then on no one dares to enter the nine snake mountain, the village people at most is at the foot of the mountain to cut firewood, cattle. Many years later, this nine snakes mountain to the night can always hear the sound of shouting, the village people think that there are ghosts and gods, but also do not dare to approach it, and then came some people, I heard to do research, only into the mountain not long, do not dare to go in, can only be retired, they also only said that all of this is likely to be a natural phenomenon. But the people in the village did not believe them, one to think that it was the wrongful spirits of the people who went up the mountain in those years. However, in recent years, I do not know why the shouts of murder from the mountain more and more less, but still always exist. These decades, the village would have relied on the surrounding mountains to live, and the area of the nine snakes mountain almost accounted for half of the size of all the surrounding mountains, many years after the use of the other mountains do not protect the village people to move their attention to the nine snakes mountain, which is a great wealth for the several villages in the vicinity, but they are not afraid to enter the mountain. A few days ago, a Taoist priest came to the village, he told the village chief that he must find a person who is heavy in both yin and yang qi to go to the mountain once in order to dissolve the grievances of the ghosts on the mountain, and from then on, everything will be peaceful. Wang Baifu found a few nearby village chiefs to discuss, decided to give it a try, but also thought that the best candidate is Nie Mo. Nine Snake Mountain, not the highest mountain in the village, but is the largest area of a mountain, from a distance it looks like a huge screen, tilted in the direction of the village, there is a strong sense of oppression, not to mention go up, is to look at it for a long time will be unable to breathe . Nie end on the mountain when it is already almost dawn, he turned back to see those villagers from their own 100 meters away from the villagers are looking at themselves, as if afraid of their own run, the heart is very contemptuous, his grandfather is not in the crowd, may not want to see themselves on the mountain it, thought of his grandfather, he made up his mind to be sure to come back alive.