Chapter 191 Walking through Hengshan Mountain and discovering mountain treasures!
Just as Zhang Hao was doing the ritual of walking in front of the mountain.
Several tourists standing at the entrance of the temple paused and looked at him with curiosity and doubt in their eyes.
"What is this guy doing? Why doesn't it look like he's praying to God or Buddha, but like he's performing some kind of ceremony?"
"What do you mean, this is a ceremony being held, but... the ceremony was held at the door of the temple, and the abbot standing at the door did not drive him away."
"Ah? Isn't this the man walking side by side with the abbot? I saw the abbot receiving him very warmly before, and the abbot seemed to be very familiar with him."
"Huh? So, this guy is still a relative, no wonder the abbot didn't drive him away, but what on earth is this guy doing?"
"Who knows? His ceremony doesn't look like a formal ceremony. It's not some messy ceremony that I don't know where to look at, right?"
"I don't know. Anyway, this guy is dressed very strangely. He is wearing straw sandals and carrying a basket. He looks like some seller on the mountain, but he is too young to look like him."
The abbot standing at the door clasped his hands together. The young apprentice was confused, raised his hand and scratched his head, and asked curiously: "Master, what is this donor doing?"
Master Jinggen looked at Zhang Hao's behavior, thought for a moment, moved his mouth a few times, but swallowed the words again.
To be honest, he didn't really understand.
But it can also be vaguely seen that Zhang Hao's benefactor should be performing some kind of ritual of their mountain walkers. This may be like every time they want to chant sutras, they have to worship the Buddha statue, or purify themselves, burn incense, etc. After a series of rituals, you can start chanting sutras and performing rituals.
Presumably, as a mountain walker, Zhang Hao, the donor, would perform such a ritual before every time he walked on the mountain. I guess so.
Think of this.
Zhang Hao had already finished the ceremony and stood up, letting the incense burn. Then, he packed up all the things and put them back into the spirit-strengthening basket.
Carrying the spirit-solidifying basket, he walked toward Master Jinggen.
Arriving in front of Master Jinggen, he clasped his hands and bowed in salute: "Master Jinggen, thank you for lending me the door of the temple. I won't disturb you too much. I will take my leave now."
Master Jinggen also clasped his hands together, holding a rosary in his hand, and bowed in return: "Donor Zhang Hao's words are serious."
Afterwards, the two exchanged a few simple greetings, saying that if they were destined to meet each other in the future, they would definitely visit Fangguang Temple in the future, and so on.
Zhang Hao took his belongings and walked out of the area of Fangguang Temple, and then continued up the mountain along the repaired asphalt road.
The ritual of entering the mountain has been solved, so the next step is to find the road to another undeveloped mountain.
According to Zhang Hao's observation, there will no longer be any mountain treasures in this developed mountain in Hengshan. Even if they do appear, they are not easy to catch. The mountain treasures that can continue to stay here are more valuable than human beings. Even if you come into contact with too many people in normal times, it is not a good thing. Those mountain treasures are even more refined.
Therefore, he would rather choose to look for mountain treasures in the undeveloped mountains.
Passing many tourists along the way, Zhang Hao finally saw a path leading into the dense forest.
Zhang Hao looked around and saw that no one was going to walk along the path, so he turned around and walked into the path.
Looking at the road under his feet, he immediately judged that it was a path that many people walked on, rather than a specially expanded path for the scenic spot.
What he wanted to find was this kind of trail, because only this kind of trail could make it possible for him to find the way to the undeveloped mountains.
Zhang Hao continued walking deeper into the dense forest.
He still did not walk on the path, but wore straw sandals and stepped on the weeds or on places that were not roads.
After all, he was walking on Mount Heng this time, and it was a mountain he was not familiar with. He had to be more cautious. If he broke the rules of mountain walkers, he would be more likely to get tricked here than in Zhaojiacun. The mountain is much higher.
If you are not careful, you may fall into it. Zhang Hao doesn't want to encounter such a thing on his first trip to an unfamiliar mountain. It will greatly damage his image as a mountain walker.
In this way, he walked all the way deep into the dense forest, leaving some inconspicuous marks along the way.
Along the way, he saw a lot of things, such as plastic paper left by tourists, tissue paper, and even family planning supplies.
At first, Zhang Hao would pick up these things that did not belong in the mountains, but as he went deeper and deeper, not only did the garbage not decrease, but it became more and more, as if many people had entered this area. In the dense forest, I did a lot of things in it.
Zhang Hao sighed helplessly.
Sure enough, after a big mountain is developed, it is bound to encounter this kind of problem. As the number of tourists increases, there will inevitably be people with poor quality, littering everywhere, people who do not care for the environment, etc.
But as a staff member of the scenic spot, it is impossible to watch these people all the time, so this situation will occur. In the eyes of mountain walkers, it has to be said to be a kind of sadness.
After all, the reason why nature is called nature is not just because of the word nature.
Too much human intervention or too much construction has destroyed nature.
But these things were beyond Zhang Hao's control, so he didn't think about it deeply and continued to move forward.
We walked forward for another full half hour.
There is no garbage left here, and the road has disappeared. It is completely a primitive dense forest.
Just when Zhang Hao thought this was the undeveloped dense forest, he saw a mesh partition not far in front of him, separating the dense forest from it.
When he saw the partition, he suddenly realized that only by crossing the partition in front of him could he truly enter the undeveloped jungle. Sure enough, no wonder along the way, not to mention any mountain treasures, even the medicinal materials that have grown for a long time have not been seen.
This is the ultimate consequence of over-development, which causes those mountain spirits to leave their original places and settle in a strange place. When people further develop, they will go to another place again.
Of course, there are also those who are unlucky and have no chance to leave at all.
Putting aside the thoughts in his mind for the time being, Zhang Hao stood in front of the mesh partition and started climbing very quickly.
Not even a towering tree in front of him could stop him, let alone a mesh partition that seemed to be less than three meters high.
What's more, Xu is a staff member in the scenic area and doesn't think anyone will come here. There are only partitions here, and there is no such thing as a power grid, which is convenient for Zhang Hao.
After climbing over easily, he patted the dirt on his hands, looked around, and lifted his nose to smell the smell here.
When a qualified mountain walker comes to a brand new dense forest, he can smell the general atmosphere of the mountain and initially judge what state the dense forest belongs to, but this is only a first step. This feeling is more like that of an old alcoholic who can smell the type of wine and how old it is just by smelling it with his nose.
After simply sniffing the air in the mountain, squatting down and rubbing the soil under his feet, Zhang Hao judged that there were not many traces of people coming to this dense forest, as if the mountain had been closed. No one is allowed in or out.
Of course, this is also for safety reasons.
For example, many people have entered the mountains without permission, lost their way, or encountered danger in the mountains. If there is no signal in the mountains again, it will really make the sky and the earth not respond, etc. Just die.
In the past, there were quite a few such things, so the mountain could only be closed and people were prohibited from entering and exiting at will.
Of course, for ordinary people, this is indeed protection, but for mountain walkers, this is even more of a good thing.
Because after the mountain is closed, no one will enter the mountain, so there is no possibility of anyone discovering the mountain treasures, mountain spirits, etc., so as long as the mountain walkers come here, they will definitely gain something.
Zhang Hao stood up and looked at the dense forest in front of him with a smile. He was full of expectations for this mountain walk, and he was even more curious about what he might encounter next.
Carrying a solid spirit basket and wearing straw sandals, Zhang Hao felt as relaxed and comfortable as if he had returned home, wandering freely in the dense forest.
He bent down, picked up a branch from the ground and used it as a walking stick, and then walked in the mountains.
Sometimes he paused and looked around, looking at the surrounding trees. Sometimes he raised his head and looked at the sunlight that was obscured by the huge tree crown and could only be projected to the ground through the gap, as well as the various birds standing on the branches.
It has to be said that the trees in the depths of Hengshan Mountain are very different from the mountains on the back of Zhaojiacun. The trees here in Hengshan are mostly firs. The fir trees can be seen everywhere, and you can’t see the edge at a glance. But similarly, the trees on Hengshan Mountain are also very different. There are also many types of plants.
For example, the big yellow flower orchid, according to statistics, there are less than 300 of them in Jiuzhou, and they can be found on Hengshan Mountain.
There are also Yang's Danxia orchids, the total number of which is less than 100 in the world.
As well as a large number of plants such as Ringo and Brightleaf Smiling.
After Zhang Hao entered Hengshan Mountain, he really felt how many plant species there were on Hengshan Mountain.
For example, the mountain behind Zhaojia Village does not have many plant species, which is very different from Hengshan Mountain.
However, maybe because of this, the mountain has not been developed into a scenic spot, and I don't know if this is a good thing.
Zhang Hao leaned on crutches leisurely and walked forward aimlessly step by step.
After all, he had just come here and he needed to get familiar with the mountain before doing anything. There was no rush to find mountain treasures or something.
Only after becoming familiar with it can he be sure to catch Shan Bao after it appears.
Just wandering around like this, Zhang Hao felt a little tired, so he found an open space, sat on the ground, took out a water glass from the solid basket, drank some water, and moistened his dry throat.
Then, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked up at the sky, feeling the hot smell of the harsh sunlight.
He put his hands back smoothly, but in an instant, he suddenly took his hands back, turned his head with a frown, and looked at the position behind him.
Just now when he stretched out his hand behind him, he felt as if his left hand had been electrocuted, and he didn't even feel that he had touched anything.
Looking at the weeds behind him, apart from some weeds, there was only a stone not much bigger than the palm of his hand.
Could it be an illusion?
Zhang Hao knew that sometimes he would feel an electric shock on his arm inadvertently. That was because there was a numb tendon in his elbow, and he would feel an electric shock when he touched it. Could it be because of this?
Zhang Hao didn't think much and still stretched his hand back. This time he didn't feel the electric shock, so he gave up the idea.
Looking at the sunshine above his head, the thoughts in his mind further diverged.
I don’t know how the recording of Li Siyu’s program is going, and how Xiaobai and the Mountain God Deer are doing. Without him and Li Siyu accompanying the dog and the deer, will they feel bored?
Maybe.
Zhang Hao shook his head, smiled, and then took his hand back.
But just when he took his hand back, he suddenly reacted. The expression on his face was startled, and he immediately turned his head and pulled away the weeds behind him.
Then, he was surprised to find that... the stone just now was gone!
Zhang Hao raised his head and looked around, as if he was looking for something, but what he thought was true.
There is indeed something wrong with that stone!
(End of chapter)