roccoschili Chapter 169 Stone Tablet Eats Snake
Chapter 169 Stone Tablet Eats Snake
A long time ago, the county captain (deputy of the county magistrate, equivalent to the current deputy county magistrate) of Liangdang County, Shaanxi Province (now part of Longnan City, Gansu Province) was a man named Tu Chiwen.
His family hired a cook named Zhang. This person is a good eater, has a large appetite and is very strong. The body is tall and strong, but the left ear is gone for some unknown reason.
Of course, Tu Chiwen would not hire a person of unknown origin and ask him about his place of origin and life story, especially why he lost his left ear and whether he was involved in a crime and came here.
Zhang denied it and told Tu Chiwen about his experience in detail.
It turns out that Zhang is from Sichuan, living in the mountains, and his ancestors have made a living by hunting for three generations.
Other hunters have to search for prey all over the mountains and fields, but Zhang family ancestors handed down a strange book, which records how to catch the wind and smell the prey, and even know what kind of beast is coming.
Therefore, every time the Zhang family goes into the mountains to hunt, they always come back with a full harvest.
When Zhang was young, he also relied on this strange book to make a living hunting.
During that time, Zhang was hunting in Qionglai Mountain (located between the Minjiang River and Dadu River in western Sichuan Province). It is called the "Yin and Yang Realm". It is said that the Yang Realm has a lot of gold and the terrain is relatively flat; while the Yin Realm has many rare birds and animals, exotic flowers and trees, but the terrain is extremely steep and few people enter.
One day, Zhang went hunting in Qionglai Mountain again.
He wandered around the Yang Realm for a long time, but he didn't gain much.
So, he prepared dry food and entered the underworld, thinking that he would never look back until he caught the prey.
After Zhang went in, he walked more than fifty miles, and the sky gradually became dark.
He saw from a distance that on a high mountain about ten miles away, there seemed to be something burning. The fire was shining on it. It looked like a red sun, shining on the woods in the valley, followed by a strange wave. The wind blew wildly.
Zhang initially thought it was a mountain fire, but after a while, he felt like there was a movement of a giant beast getting closer and closer.
He didn't know what kind of animal it was, so he caught the wind and put it into his nostrils to smell it, but it was a strange smell that was not recorded in his family legend book.
Zhang suddenly felt frightened and worried that he would not be able to deal with the beast alone, so he hurriedly climbed to the top of a big tree to watch.
After a while, when the fire slowly approached, Zhang discovered that the thing was not a beast, but a big stone tablet!
I saw that the top of the stone tablet was carved in the shape of a tiger. The fire that Zhang saw was emitted by this tiger.
The fire was very bright and radiant, like countless torches burning at the same time, illuminating a range that was several miles away.
What shocked Zhang even more was that the stone tablet could actually wander and walk forward on its own!
When the stone monument walked under the tree that Zhang was climbing, he seemed to feel someone on the tree. He suddenly jumped up, reaching a height of three to four feet, as if he wanted to devour the person on the tree. He missed it just a little bit. to Zhang’s body.
Zhang was so scared that he lost his mind! He held his breath and didn't dare to move at all.
The stone tablet didn't encounter anyone, so it stopped jumping up and continued to move slowly toward the southwest.
Zhang secretly said, "It's a good chance." He was glad that he was out of danger.
When the stone monument gradually moved away, Zhang was about to get off the tree when he suddenly saw thousands of giant snakes swimming over in an overwhelming manner.
Those snakes made Zhang feel numb when he saw them! The big one is as thick as a wheel, and the small one is as thick as a measuring bucket.
Zhang thought to himself: This time he is completely dead, he will definitely be buried in Shekou!
It’s okay if I don’t think about it, but I’m even more shocked and scared when I think about it!
Unexpectedly, these snakes did not come towards him. When they passed by him, they all flew in the air and were far away from the tree he was climbing.
Zhang hugged the big tree tightly. Although he was scared to death, it was nothing serious.
Only a small snake flew slightly low and passed by his left ear.
Zhang immediately felt unbearable pain.
He reached out and touched it, and found that the ear was gone and blood was flowing down.
He looked sideways and saw that the stone tablet was still in front, but it was no longer moving, but stood motionless in the firelight.
As long as a snake passes by the stone tablet, empty shells will fall from the air, just like tens of thousands of white silks falling down, and the sound of chewing can also be heard.
Zhang was so shocked that he opened his mouth wide: Can snakes be eaten on that stone tablet? !
After a while, the snakes disappeared, and the stone tablet began to walk again, slowly walking away and disappearing.
Despite this, Zhang still did not dare to act rashly.
He waited until the next day before he dared to slowly get down from the tree.
He didn't dare to go hunting anymore, didn't want to stay for a moment, and hurriedly looked for a way home.
No one knew that in desperation, he had lost his way.
It was fine when he came, but he couldn't go back!
While Zhang was running around in the mountains, he suddenly met an old man on the road.
The two met suddenly and were both surprised.
Zhang, however, seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and ran over immediately, almost throwing himself into the old man's arms.
The old man asked him why he came to this deep mountain and forest alone.
Zhang explained: "I am a hunter who came into the mountains to hunt. Unexpectedly, I encountered something strange. I was so frightened that I lost my way!"
As he said that, he told the old man about the strange thing he encountered about the stone tablet eating snakes.
The old man smiled and said, "You don't have to be afraid. I am a mountaineer here. I have also experienced what you saw."
The luminous stone tablet is the Monument of King Yu. When King Yu was controlling floods, he came to Qionglai Mountain and encountered a poisonous snake blocking his way.
King Yu was furious and ordered Gengchen to kill the snakes. He erected two stone tablets to suppress them and swore: "You will become a god in the future and you will kill snakes and eliminate harm for the people from generation to generation!" ’
Four thousand years have passed since the monument was erected, and the stone monument has indeed become a god.
The stone tablets erected by King Yu at the beginning were two pieces, one large and one small. You are lucky enough to encounter the small one, so you can escape death.
If that big stone tablet were to travel, fire would be ignited within a radius of five miles, and the trees would be reduced to ashes. Fortunately, you haven't encountered one, otherwise even if you were hiding in a tree, the tree would be burned together.
Those two stone monuments both used snakes as food, and they would take snakes with them wherever they went. The reason why you were not hurt by snakes is because those snakes just bowed their heads and waited to be eaten by the stone tablets and had no time to hurt people.
Although your ear was accidentally injured by a snake, the snake is very poisonous. You have been poisoned by snake venom. When you reach the Yang Realm, you will die when you see the sun! "
Zhang hurriedly asked the old man how to cure the snake venom.
The old man said: "Fortunately you met me! I have lived in the mountains for a long time and carry snake medicine with me."
After saying that, he took out the medicine from under his clothes and treated Zhang.
Zhang thanked the old man profusely and asked him to show him the way.
The old man took him to the road leading to the Yang Realm, said goodbye to him and left.
After Zhang returned, he no longer dared to go hunting in the mountains. Instead, he learned the craft of a chef and went out to make a living!