Chapter 292 Leopard’s Past
“Tell me, Fourth Grandpa, tell me how you beat leopards back then.”
Seeing Chen Ling pull a stool over and sit down, he couldn’t wait to Knowing this, Chen Gannian grinned, and the two scars left by wolves on his face trembled.
"You little kid, you are still the same as when you were naked, and you still love to listen to adults telling stories..."
The old man smiled and coughed twice, and recalled: "That year, at this time in autumn, a leopard came down from the North Mountain. This leopard was so powerful that it kept making trouble in our place for two or three days.
Our village Zhongkui Tada is bold. You must know Zhongkui. He is the hunter in our village who cut off the heads of women and rolled them all over the ground. Handle, come out and look for it.
That leopard was lying in a ditch at the base of Beishan Mountain. This man happened to see it, so he went over to kill it.
When he went to shoot the leopard, he couldn't tell whether his aim was correct or not.
He couldn't tell whether he was panicking or not, and whether his hands were shaking or not.
Anyway, as soon as he fired his gun, the leopard ran up from the ditch, pushed him to the bottom of the ditch, and sat on it. ”
"What do you mean?"
"Sit on it?"
Chen Ling and others listened intently. They were stunned when they heard this sentence, and they didn't realize what it meant.
Chen Gannian took a sip of tea and nodded, "Sit on it. The leopard is strong and heavy, and the strength on his body is frightening. He pinned him to the bottom of the ditch and sat on his butt. "Then the leopard ate him?"
"No. The blame for what happened back then was just this place. The leopard sat on him and ignored him, didn't move him, didn't catch him, or bite him."
"Yo..." Everyone immediately exclaimed.
Chen Gannian continued: "More people came later, but they just shouted in the distance, and no one dared to come forward. When the leopard saw more people coming, he stood up again and said softly He jumped out from the bottom of the ditch, jumped back to the north, and returned to the mountains.
This guy was Zhongkui Tada. We called him Lao Diao at that time. This man had been hunting for a long time, and he had an evil spirit about him. He was ferocious, and the animals were afraid of him. He was very cunning.
But he met a leopard, and if he couldn't be cunning, he died two months later. He was frightened to death. Dead.”
"Oh, scared to death?"
"That's not the case. Think about it, people at that time didn't have enough to eat, drank watery meals twice a day, and had no energy. If a leopard scares them again, Don't you get sick out of fear?"
After Chen Gannian finished speaking, he chuckled twice and then coughed violently.
Chen Ling saw that although he was awake, his eyes were cloudy and he would cough from time to time. It was obvious that he was not in good health, so he changed the tea and gave the old man a cup of honey water for him to drink.
The water source always available at home is diluted spiritual water mixed with wild honey. The old man started to sweat after just two sips.
But my spirits improved a lot.
Chen Ling placed the chess pieces, and while he was playing chess with the old man, he continued to ask: "That leopard is weird, why doesn't it eat that old man?"
Chen Ling Qian Nian shook his head: "I haven't eaten. I don't know if I'm not hungry or what? Anyway, I ignored him."
Chen Dazhi also said beside him: "Leopards don't eat people, they must be full. Otherwise, I would have torn the old man to pieces and eaten him.”
“Well, this is weird, the leopard knocked him down and sat on him, but he didn’t eat. We were still young at that time, so we all hid behind the adults and watched as the adults dragged Lao Diao up from the bottom of the ditch without a single injury on his body. "
"Uncle, why does this old Diao Bao Zi go alone, instead of recruiting three or five helpers? If there are too many people, why is it safer?" Wang Qingwen came over and asked.
"That's different, he is an Orion."
Chen Gannian raised his head and looked at Wang Qingwen: "He wanted to kill the leopard and keep it all to himself. How about not only There are many people, and those who go to the mountains and rivers get a share, and those who go there get a share, and those who do not work hard can also get a share. If you beat the leopard, you will get nothing."
< br>“Oh, he was hoping to make a fortune from hunting leopards?”
“That’s not true.”
After saying this, Wang Qingwen immediately understood.
Because in the Qinling Mountains west of Fenglei Town and north of Lutou Mountain, there used to be many herb farmers who made a living by collecting herbs.
They are both hunters and medicine farmers. The medicines they collect are not only herbs, but also things from wild animals.
Just like this leopard.
Leopard skin, leopard meat, leopard heart, leopard gallbladder, leopard whip, and even leopard oil, all kinds of things on leopards are very valuable.
"Fugui and your group met a leopard on the mountain a while ago. It seems that we missed it?"
Chen Dazhi said at this time.
"Well, I missed it. The leopard still had its tail broken off. It was so slippery, ran fast, jumped high, and jumped into the tree. If I hadn't taken the dog with me, If it doesn’t walk in front of you, you won’t be able to get close to it.”
You can’t catch the domesticated cat, let alone the leopard in the forest, which is even more difficult. .
If a leopard does not actively attack people, but actively approaches people, it is a dream for people to catch it. Unless there are good dogs and guns, and there are many people, a trap can be set in advance, or the leopard can be lured to it. , only then can it be caught.
"This leopard is so ferocious that it cannot be compared to the local leopards. The young man in our village has never seen a leopard before. When he first went up the mountain, it was quite new. But he actually saw a leopard. The leopard stared at him and he was so frightened that he ran out of fear. I was sweating, and my hair stood on end, and I even forgot to fire the gun, let alone hit or miss."
Chen Ling pouted, expressing his helplessness.
"What about the trap you used later? Did it work? Did you lure the leopard?" Chen Dazhi asked again.
"It's not good. I went for a walk twice the day before yesterday. Not to mention the leopard, the wild boar was not caught."
Chen Ling still shook his head. On the west mountain, he put it on the wild boar's dung path. The clips didn’t yield much either.
That's the wild boar's main path, and logically it shouldn't be like this.
Unless there are other reasons.
For example, the leopard or the wolves on the north mountain may affect them.
"If that old Diao had the strength to lift a three-hundred-jin hammer like you, Fugui, he might be able to kill the leopard when he sat on him." Chen Dazhi said with a smile.
“Are you right, Fourth Master?”
"Yes or no." Chen Gannian put down the chess piece in his hand, stretched out his hand and gestured: "I don't know if you have seen the leopard's claws before. It is so long, almost half a foot long. That guy is no different from a steel hook. The transparent and translucent claw hook is bright when it is stretched out. If you grab someone on a person, it is just a lump of flesh.
It doesn’t matter how strong you are, you can lift three people. A hundred kilograms of ramming hammer, carrying five hundred kilograms of firewood, even if its claws dig at you, you can't bear it."
"Oh, so powerful?" Everyone was a little dumbfounded, thinking that the old man was exaggerating. Exaggerated.
Only Chen Ling knew that what Fourth Grandpa said was true.
The speed of cats and the sharpness of their claws are beyond ordinary people's imagination.
Otherwise, why can they climb trees and run wildly on steep rock walls?
If you really want to fight one on one, no one can compare to their reaction.
“So, when fighting leopards or tigers, you still have to bring real guys with you.” Chen Ling sighed.
Chen Gannian nodded approvingly when he heard this: "You have to bring a real guy, even if you don't bring a gun, it's much better to bring a steel fork, a woodcutter, and a shovel than bare hands. There are few leopards at the moment and you can’t find them, so don’t try to recruit them. You won’t make a fortune from them now.”
Although the old man is sometimes confused and sometimes sober, the basic principles are very clear.
I woke up now, started playing chess, and played back and forth with Chen Ling and others.
After playing a few games of chess, the rain gradually subsided. The old man watched the dogs and watched the eagles. He walked around the farm and praised the farm to the heavens, including Chen Ling. Sorry.
At noon, Chen Ling forcibly left the two of them to have a meal, and then accompanied Chen Dazhi to send the fourth grandfather back to the village.
I heard from people that not long after Fourth Grandpa returned that day, he became confused again.
Chen Ling didn't have time to look again. The eighteenth day of the eighth lunar month was a sunny day. On this day, he drove his wife, children, and mother-in-law to Yaowang Temple to offer incense.
Baihe Ridge, where Yaowang Temple is located, is not too far from Fenglei Town.
Can travel by water or land.
To take the water route is to start from Fenglei Town, and to take the land route is to take the ancient trade road between Changle Township and Fenglei Town like they did.
This ancient trade road runs diagonally through it, connecting three provinces. The mountain road is very spacious.
Even now, it is often repaired. Although it is a gravel road, it is quite bumpy for bicycles to walk on, but it is not too bad for cars.
Walking on the wide commercial road, there are many motor vehicles.
There are cars, three-wheelers, and tractors. Most of them are agricultural vehicles, pulling all kinds of goods and driving past with black smoke.
But most of them are pack horses and donkey carts, which are packed with grain. The donkeys and horses are walking with a steady pace, and the bells are shaking and jingling.
Wang Zhenzhen didn’t want to follow him when he came out this time. There were only two people, Wang Susu and Gao Xiulan, but they were lively enough.
Chen Ling was driving in front, and the mother and daughter were holding the baby behind and looking at the scenery outside the car window and talking non-stop. The little guy in their arms also followed them and looked around outside the window.
Halfway through the journey, Gao Xiulan reminded: "The Empress Temple is here. I have to go to the Empress Temple to burn incense first, and then go to Yaowang Temple."
After Chen Ling responded, She then said: "You and Susu just wait below. I can go to the Empress Temple alone. We will go up together to Yaowang Temple."
The two agreed again.
This Empress Temple is also related to Liu Xiu.
It is still one of the old stories about Wang Mang chasing Liu Xiu away. This time Liu Xiu was rescued by a village girl. At that time, people had big skirts, so Liu Xiu hid in this village girl's skirt to avoid the pursuers. How could he know? This village girl is a yellow flower girl.
Having been cheated on, Liu Xiu died of shame after leaving.
Later Liu Xiu became the emperor and learned about this. He chose the hilltop and built a temple for the Empress at this place.
Liang Hongyu said this at that time.
In short, this Niangniang Temple is a small temple used for praying. It is only famous in Fenglei Town and Changle Township, but not any further away.
It can’t be compared to Yaowo Temple.
When the mother-in-law came out of the temple, Chen Ling started the car again. After driving for ten minutes, a green mountain ridge appeared in front of him. The sparkling colorful ribbons flowed around without knowing where they were going.
"This is Baihe Ridge, right? Let's figure it out now."
Chen Ling slowed down and looked at the road signs. The road signs hadn't been hung up yet. That kind of sign is just a place name written on a stone on the side of the road or a road monument engraved on it as a sign.
“Yes, I have left the province.”
Gao Xiulan nodded and said with a smile: "This is also the first time that you two have gone out of the province. Susu has never come with me to burn incense or run around since she was a child."
"Huh? Have you never seen the boundary monuments of the three provinces?”
Chen Ling turned to look at Wang Susu in surprise, this is the most iconic thing outside Fenglei Town.
Wang Susu smiled and shook her head slowly.
Chen Ling was stunned.
"Tsk, my wife is really..."
"I will take her out to play more next year and see more of the world."
While the three of them were talking, Chen Ling suddenly I saw a figure on the cliff on the opposite mountain, seeming to be climbing on the thuja on the cliff. It was frightening to see.
Far apart, the figures are as small as sesame seeds.
When I wanted to take a closer look, I was obscured by a burst of mountain fog.
Chen Ling asked his wife and mother-in-law if they had seen someone on the mountain opposite, swaying and looking like they were about to fly to the cliff.
Hearing his exaggerated tone, the two of them hurriedly leaned in front of the car window to take a closer look, but after watching for a while, they couldn't figure out what was going on.
Gao Xiulan said: "Maybe he is collecting herbs."
(End of this chapter)