Mountain God's Wife

In the sky, there was a slight white light, and accompanied by the crowing of cocks in the village, the adults of all households got up one after another, and the women began to cook, preparing food for the men who went to work in the fields.

The daughter-in-law of the village chief's family woke up and didn't see her husband. When she was preparing to cook, she overheard movement in the hall. She pushed the door and entered, and was suddenly coughed by the lingering smoke.

"Old man, you haven't slept all night?" When his wife saw the candles on the table, she didn't blame him for wasting them. She understood that the anxiety in the husband's heart as the village head was related to the life and death of the whole village after all.

The village head is not young, he stayed up all night, his eyes were red, he was smoking dry tobacco, his hunched back seemed to be weighing a thousand catties.

"Cui Niang, go to the stream and see how much water there is?"

"Shall we go now? We haven't cooked the meal yet!"

"What kind of food! Immediately, the whole village will die! Who is in the mood to eat!"

The village chief knocked on the tobacco rod vigorously, poured out the ash inside, and replaced it with new tobacco.

"I know, I know." The village chief's daughter-in-law sighed, and went to change her clothes, "The water should be almost dry, alas, it's so dry now, it hasn't rained for several months, and without the spring on the mountain, we need to How do you live..."

"It's really a crime, old man, do you think you made the mountain god angry because of that thing?

I just said that the messy matter should not be resolved on the mountain, and offended the quietness of the mountain god..."

"What do you know as a woman?!" The village head seemed to have been poked in the sore foot, and reprimanded: "If you tell you to go, go! Where did you come from so much nonsense!"

"Now I know it's terrible. If I had listened to me before, there wouldn't be so many things!" His wife snorted, ignored the village chief's roar and went out.

At this time, the sky had already turned white, and many people went to work in the fields, and the smoke from cooking was floating on every household.

"Aunt Cui..."

Lingling's pleasant voice sounded beside the village head's wife. She looked up and smiled, "Ayan, can you bring food to your mother?"

Although the girl in front of her was dressed in coarse linen, she couldn't hide her bookish aura, and she raised her hands and feet in a gentle and polite manner. She was not like a girl from a peasant family, but more like everyone's lady, and she was born beautiful, too. The most handsome girl in their village!

As expected of a scholar's daughter, Aunt Cui thought, Ruan Yan is just different from girls from other families, and it's no wonder that the boys in the village are thinking about it day and night.

What's more, this girl is also good at housework, she doesn't have the squeamishness of those big ladies, such a good girl, I don't know which family will be cheaper in the future.

If it wasn't for her sons getting married, she would have thought about it.

"Yes, Aunt Cui..." Ruan Yan smiled shyly. Her father had to prepare for Xiang Gong and had been studying all the time. All the farm work of the family fell on her mother, and she prepared and delivered three meals a day. For mothers who work in the fields.

"Aunt Cui, are you going to..."

"Don't mention it, you also know that the mountain god has shown his power and cut off the water in our village. How can we live in this severe drought?

The old man asked me to see how much water is left, if this continues, our village will really have no way of life..." Aunt Cui sighed deeply.

Ruan Yan knew that a few days ago, there was a deafening thunderclap in the sky, and all the villagers were startled. The difference in the sky was either a blessing or a disaster. Sure enough, a hunter who went hunting on the mountain rushed back to tell everyone about the spring water. The mouth was blocked by a boulder, and they also tried to push the stone away, but to no avail.

It has not rained for several months. The people and crops in the village depend on the spring on the mountain. If the only water source is cut off...

After parting from Aunt Cui, Ruan Yan went to deliver food to her mother full of thoughts. In the field, a woman saw the girl coming and immediately went to greet her.

The woman looks half like Ruan Yan, why is it half? It is because her left face is covered with hideous scars unlike her right face, which seems to have been carved without time. .

If it weren't for the scar on the left face, Ruan's mother would definitely be a great beauty.

"What are you thinking about? You are frowning early in the morning." Mother Ruan took her daughter's basket and asked with concern.

Mother Ruan took off the cloth covering her face.

"It's nothing, mother, you can eat first!" Ruan Yan and her mother sat on the ridge of the field and had breakfast together.

It's just that as she ate, her mind drifted to the towering mountain not far away.

They in Linxia Village have relied on the mountain for generations to eat. Linshan is their treasure and the foundation for them to live and work. Linshan is so high that the villagers of Linxia Village dare not go deep.

But just on the outskirts of the mountain there are countless herbs and wild game. If you just dig some and sell them in the town, it will be enough money for the whole family for a long time. There are wild beasts going down the mountain to eat people. Villagers can occasionally hear the howling of tigers and wolves at the foot of the mountain.

But not only the people are fine, but also the animals in the family have not been carried by wild animals, so the villagers have always believed that the mountain gods restrained those wild animals to protect them, and they would also perform sacrifices to the mountain gods during festivals.

"Mother, is Lord Mountain God really angry?" Seeing that her mother had almost finished eating, Ruan Yan asked casually.

"If there really is a mountain god on this mountain, and he protected the village for hundreds of years but suddenly cut off our way of life, maybe someone did something to make him angry."

Ruan's mother frowned. She was not from this village, but was exiled here because of an accident many years ago, so she didn't really believe in the so-called mountain god here.

"An angry thing..."

"Mother means it's possible." Looking into her daughter's clear eyes, Mother Ruan swallowed some words back, she didn't want to let some nasty things stain her daughter's ears.

Besides, that incident was just my own guess, but if those people really did it, it would not be surprising that the mountain god would be angry.

"But if there is no water, what should we do? It hasn't rained for a long time..." Ruan Yan couldn't hide the worry in her eyes.

"If we really get to that point, then we can only move. Don't worry, my mother will arrange it."

If she really couldn't make it through, Mother Ruan would not let her daughter suffer no matter what.

The mountain god shouldn't be so decisive, right?In Ruan Yan's heart, she always felt that if the mountain god really existed, it must be an extremely gentle god.

The sun was gradually rising, and the sun was very hot in the low weather. Mother Ruan urged her daughter to go back quickly.

Ruan Yan was going to help her mother with the farm work for a while, but she couldn't help her and had to go back obediently.

After arriving home, she cautiously pushed open the door of her father's study room. At the moment her father was shaking his head and reading a book. She was afraid of disturbing him, so she went in lightly and packed up the dishes and chopsticks that her father had finished eating before leaving. There was no sound.

After washing the pots and bowls, she carried the bamboo basket on her back and prepared to go to the mountain to dig some wild vegetables with her good friends as usual, and see if she could find some herbs by the way.

Ruan Yan came to the next door and saw her friend's mother feeding the chickens. She stood at the door and called out, "Aunt Li, is Lan Lan here?"

"That girl just ran out to play, she seems to be going to the gate of the village to see something lively!"

Aunt Li replied: "Why don't you come in first and wait for that girl and aunt to get you some sugar water!"

Sugar is a rare commodity here, Ruan Yan would not accept it, "No need for auntie, I have to go to the mountain, let's go first."

When her friend was away, Ruan Yan went up the mountain with a bamboo basket on her back.

Wealthy, the only money I had was for my father to buy pens, inks, papers and inkstones. Ruan Yan had time to go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables for the family’s meal. Ruan’s mother had a good cooking skill, and Ruan Yan was taught by her, even if some of them were in other villagers. The bitter wild vegetables in her mouth can change in her hands!

"Ruan Yan! Ah Yan! Why are you still here! Hurry up! Let's go to the entrance of the village together!"

When Ruan Yan was about to go up the mountain, a friend who didn't know where she was going suddenly appeared and grabbed her arm and ran towards the entrance of the village.

Ruan Yan hurriedly grabbed her friend who was in a hurry and asked, "What's wrong?"

"The village chief asked Brother Aniu to invite the Great Immortal! The legend in the village next door is amazing. It is said that the Great Immortal subdued a wicked monster in a few strokes!

As long as we ask that great fairy to talk to the mountain god, we will not cut off the water! "

Li Lan seemed a little excited. On the one hand, it was because she wanted to meet the legendary half-immortal, and on the other hand, she no longer had to worry that they would not be able to survive without water!

Daxian is not a liar, is he?

It probably won't be long before Daxian arrives in our village, let's go to the entrance of the village to join in the fun!Xiaohui and the others have all gone! "

"I'll forget it, Lan Lan, you go." Ruan Yan wasn't very curious about that immortal, so she might as well find more herbs on the mountain if she had the time.

"Aren't you really going? That's a half-immortal! Maybe we can get some immortality on him!"

It would be great if that half-immortal could bring him along to attain Taoism and become an immortal!Although the little girl knew it was impossible, she couldn't help but imagine it.

"I don't care about the fairy energy, you go to play and remember to tell Aunt Li, so that she won't worry."

Ruan Yan doesn't have so many unrealistic fantasies, it is the most realistic for her to live the current life well.

"Got it, then I'm going to play, be careful when you go up the mountain." Li Lan bid farewell to Ruan Yan.

Ruan Yan carried the basket on her back and continued walking up the mountain. She didn't know if it was because the mountain god was really angry and wanted to punish them mortals. The nearest wild vegetables and herbs were not easy to find, so she gradually walked deep into the mountain.

"That's...mushrooms..." Ruan Yan raised her head and wiped the sweat off her face, but she didn't expect to find mushrooms not far away when she looked up!The weather is so dry, there are still mushrooms?

From a distance, it seemed to be edible. The mushroom tasted delicious, whether it was stewed or stir-fried, it was a rare delicacy. Ruan Yan was overjoyed, put the bamboo basket aside and walked over to see what kind of mushroom it was.

But she didn't notice a foreign object under her feet, she slipped and fell down a small slope!

"It hurts..." Ruan Yan gasped, but fortunately she was stopped by something when she fell, otherwise she might have scratched her skin a bit.

She supported the little dirt bag beside her that blocked her, and managed to stand up and move her feet, but luckily she didn't sprain herself.

"Why is there a wooden board here?" Ruan Yan accidentally caught a glimpse of a piece of rotten wood that fell down beside her, soil covered... a wooden board?Ruan Yan broke out in a cold sweat after realizing it, and hurriedly stepped back several steps.

"I'm sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to offend, please forgive me..." Ruan Yan apologized to the grave for a long time, but she suddenly felt a little cold...

Ruan Yan felt more and more strange here. She hurriedly retrieved the bamboo basket and wanted to go home. When going uphill, she accidentally caught a glimpse of the place where she just slipped and fell. There seemed to be something white there...

Ruan Yan didn't dare to stay any longer, and she didn't even go to pick the mushrooms. Her left hand was sticky and greasy, it might be bleeding from the injury, and she had to go back quickly to treat the wound.

The only stranger left, and a strong wind suddenly blew up in the silent mountain forest. The whining sound of ghost cries was mixed with the sound of the wind, which was so strange. The solitary tomb began to ooze black and red liquid...