Chapter 16: Arriving at the Black Dragon Cave
As I expected that, brothers know about this matter, also have said to go to save the old man, we can not not buddy righteousness. To put it mildly, they were all very young at the time and were very particular about this, even if they were as timid as Guo Chao and as selfish as Yao Jing, they still made it clear that they couldn't let the old man die.
But when I put Hu Laoshi said those words to the brothers, the brothers are silent, carefully thought about this after, indeed let a person is very helpless, after all, dealing with evil things like this, especially the old auger, who dare to guarantee that, who has the certainty, can beat the old auger, snatch back the old age, but also can deal with the future may want to villagers to start the bloody revenge of the old auger's son it?
We brothers are all human beings, we also vomit when we drink too much, and it hurts when we are beaten!
So brothers can only sigh for the old age, to the first month of the fifteenth time, go to the west mountain black dragon cave, send the old age a ride, do a heart it.
Idle talk, and say that after knowing this thing, until the first month of the fifteenth within a few days, the brothers are sullen, that is, together with two drinks, but not as open as before, talking about heaven and earth, laughing and joking. Those two drinks became a boring wine will, a drooping head happy not up, even that usually is the most heartless Chen Jin, has been a furious look, especially after the wine, but also muttering, and even cursing rage, to go to the rescue of the old man, so that the brothers have to work hard to stop him to play drunken madness.
Time is in a hurry, if the water gurgles by, soon to the first month of the fifteenth.
That day the weather is not good, the sky is covered with lead clouds, cold wind, occasional sporadic snowflakes.
After lunch, we rode our bicycles and gathered in front of Hu Laoshi's house, the villagers could not help but feel surprised to see this scene, they all know that we young people and Hu Laoshi recently close to a period of time, I never thought that this is close to such a degree, this is to go to do great things ah! In those days, who can park five or six bicycles at the same time in front of the door, just as now in the village who parked six or seven cars in front of the door, especially, but also parked in front of a broken courtyard wall broken fence door, the owner, is a yin and yang fairy, to put it bluntly, is a magician.
Inevitably, some villagers on the side of chewing tongue and bite the root of the ear, saying that our group of young people do not do the right thing, before the trouble fights and fights and steals chickens and dogs, and now there is no longer any excitement, but also do not learn to be good, and even followed the Hu Laoshi to learn these messy handicrafts.
Like this cold days days, generally this street after lunch, will be cold even a dog hair can not see, let alone people. But sometimes the villagers that kind of hobby gossip mentality is very powerful, when our gang and Hu Laoshi together out of the door, ready to set off to the West Mountain Black Dragon Cave when the East Drainage edge of the two sides of the street, has been three or five a group of people gathered a lot of people are pointing at us, despise, doubt, surprise, disdain …… and so on. The eyes are very complex cross together gazing at us.
The feeling of being watched by so many people with various eyes is very bad, making me feel like a prisoner to be escorted to the execution ground.
We naturally all understood why these villagers would come to gather around and point, we all knew it in our hearts, and to be honest, we also felt embarrassed, after all, mixing with a godly old man at such a young age was a bit of a face-saver.
Or people Chen Jin thickest skin, live honest, a leg across the crossbar of the bike, stretching fingers in a circle pointing the crowd of onlookers once, shouting: "What are you looking at? I'll let Master Hu cast a spell and make all of you blind! You, you, I remember you all!"
This move is very effective, the crowd of onlookers have dispersed, return home, inevitably another buzz of muttering curses.
It is not that the villagers are really afraid of Hu Laoshi spell to make them blind, but watching the show to see what's going on, would not be thick enough, let people point to the nose pointing to the face to say it, more embarrassed, those who love to chew on the tongue and bite the ear to create gossip rumors of the ladies, on the Chen Jin this number of the Lord, but also do not dare to play their long-tongued shrews of the strengths of the after all, they are again strong, can be strong enough to be able to the village that the few cursing frame ancestor of the old ladies it? Even those old ladies can't do anything about our young people, so where do they have the guts to look for trouble?
Hu Lao Si watched the crowd disperse, sighed and said: "Come on, let's go! If we get there early, we may be able to meet with the old woman and chatter for a while."
Our brothers heard also no longer nonsense, have sighed, cross on the bike, or ride alone, or carry people, to the west of the village.
On the 107 national highway, along the national highway southbound four miles, turned west, running peak to peak.
The distance from our village to Black Dragon Cave is about fifty miles or so, not too far, just over an hour by bicycle.
Although we have been to the Black Dragon Cave twice before, but when we stopped at the bottom of the mountain again, looking at the deep and cold cave of the Black Dragon Cave, looking up at the high mountains, we still can not help but sigh, really is a masterpiece of nature ah!
Here is an extension of the Taihang Mountains, the original mountain is no name, just a few years ago the local government by the Black Dragon Cave and named this mountain for the Black Dragon Mountain, the mountain is not high, a few hundred meters like it, just to the west of the mountains overlap, uninterrupted, straight with the main veins of the Taihang Mountains together, so it looks like it is also lofty stacked, quite imposing.
Now in the middle of winter, no verdant branches and leaves on the mountain, only the remaining dead trees, jagged rocks, strange rocks protruding.
From the highway down, along a dirt road seven turns around a section, came to the bottom of the mountain, it seems that this winter very few people come to this sparsely populated places, everywhere snow has not disappeared, a few rows of hare's footprints in the snow clearly extends into the distance. At that time, the Black Dragon Cave has not been developed into a tourist place, now to go to the Black Dragon Cave, you have to pay for the ticket.
Along a green stone path, we carried our bicycles to the entrance of the Black Dragon Cave, which was a precious thing at that time, and we were worried that it would be stolen by someone.
Black Dragon Cave entrance from the ground is not high, up more than ten meters is, there is a platform at the mouth of the cave, there are one hundred and ten square meters in size. Cave entrance to the north, the east side of the platform has a water outlet, the water flow is not big, clattering along a green stone groove fell into a small pool under the mountain, the spring and then follow a small canal winding eastward, has been to the Yuecheng Reservoir, and then by the reservoir into the Busan River.
Black Dragon Cave wide mouth, four meters high, more than five meters wide, deep and dark inside the cave, look inside in the daytime, less than ten meters into the eye, only to hear the gurgling of the stream inside, the roof of the cave droplets falling tinkling sound crisp, the cold air from the mouth of the cave spreading outward, people standing in the mouth of the cave can not help but hit the shiver.
Snow piled up on the platform more than a foot thick, and has long been frozen like ice non-ice, cave platform terrain is higher, scattered snow has long been blown away by the wind, so this time the cave platform on the slippery very slippery, people should be extremely careful to stand on it, a lapse of attention may fall, if you slide to the bottom, it would be bad.
At this time the wind is strong, above the platform is even more cold wind like a knife, scraping people face pain.
"Let's hurry into the cave to avoid the wind! Damn, if we wait here until dark, we will freeze." After Chen Jin finished speaking, he didn't wait for the others to agree, and walked towards the Black Dragon Cave alone.
We naturally won't object, it's really a bit unbearable out there, so we all pushed our bicycles towards the Black Dragon Cave.
Black Dragon Cave, as long as you do not walk into too deep, is quite familiar, after all, came twice, like us such young people to the Black Dragon Cave does not go in to stroll that is called strange, so the route inside or some impression, such as where there is a ditch ah, where there is a piece of protruding boulder ah and so on.
Just into the cave, to the right there is a piece of flat land, we put the bike there, everyone stopped, I saw Chen Jin is still walking inside, then called out: "Hey, Jinzi, come back, do not go inside!"
"Oh, what are you doing? Maybe the old man is drinking with Old Jiao inside, let's get some." Chen Jin said with some disbelief, but he still stopped and looked our way.
Hu Laoshi said, "Come back, Old Jiao won't see us, that thing is bad-tempered, don't piss it off again."
This word out, a few of us are a little taboo like shut up and not say anything, good boy, that the old jiao anger is not a joke. Just now Hu Laoshi seems to say bad things about the old auger, here is the old auger's territory, in case the old auger is not happy, that can be a bad dish, buddies don't want to grow so big to feed the auger to eat.
"Bullshit." Chen Jin disdainful cursed, do not know the heart is really a little afraid, or do not want to disagree with us, anyway, this kid step back, but the mouth is still muttering: "it annoyed ah? We haven't gotten angry with it yet, the old woman is willing to be its food, does it still have a temper? If we could beat it, I'd have to whip its tendons and pull out its skin!"
"Ai, wanton! Nonsense, simply nonsense!" Hu Lao Si hurriedly exited to scold Chen Jin.
I looked at my brothers and sisters, their eyes in addition to fear and worry, but also through the admiration, obviously, boys, for Chen Jin such a very manly, very bold behavior full of awe and admiration. I quickly determined in my heart, this time to be bold, is very dignified, so I laughed, full of concern, said: "Come on Jinzi, you think you are Nezha it? Do you want to give you a pair of wheels to tie to your legs for fun?"
Chen Jin had already walked up to us, grinned, and said, "If I had Nezha's skills, I would really dare to turn this Black Dragon Cave upside down!"
At this time, the brothers' eyes had completely lost the trace of admiration, and were already full of panic, they were worried that a huge dragon would suddenly come out of the Black Dragon Cave, and swallow us all in one gulp. Hu Laoshi beard are up, but looking at the two of us you a word, angry froze unable to speak, just glaring at us, glaring hard.
I patted Chen Jin's shoulder and said, "Nezha killed a but the son of the Dragon King, although this place is called the Black Dragon Cave, but the master is a jiao, not a dragon, it's still that much of a grade away, and you don't mind the shabbiness?"
"Shut up!" Hu Laoshi's voice suddenly sounded like a thunderbolt in our ears, reverberating and rippling in the Black Dragon Cave as it traveled towards the cave, not dissipating for a while.
We were all shocked by Hu Laoshi's voice, boy, when did this old man have such a loud voice? When did this old man get so loud?
Or Chen Jin first stared and yelled: "What are you yelling for? What are you showing off? If you can frighten that old scaly scow, then you've got the skills!"
The original angry stare, a majestic look Hu Lao Si let Chen Jin this sentence to block the gas, helplessly shook his head and sighed, waved his hand and said: "Just just just, alas, do not say so much nonsense, want to smoke smoking, want to drink alcohol, food and drink have brought the things, take up your mouth, to save you nonsense, come on … … …"
Several other buddies rushed from the bike to unload the package, open and take out the wine and meat, peanuts and melon seeds and other things, we squatted in a circle on the ground, Chang Yunliang first took out the cigarettes to give everyone a loose circle, and then brothers pour wine, ready to eat and drink.
Now that I think about it, that time is really a bit of picnic meaning, how to say is also young, can not stay bored, there idle dry waiting, who can not wait, especially me and Chen Jin two people, if idle nagging, may also say what to the old auger treasonous words to it.