There is no rain on the mountain road, the sky is green and people's clothes are wet.
The original intention of the poem is——
It had not rained on the mountain path, but the green mountain color was so thick that it seemed to wet people's clothes.
There is a lot of humidity in the mountains. Not long after the four people from Jin'an entered the mountains, their clothes were soaked by the humidity in the mountains.
Jin'an was fine, as the fire and poisonous energy in his body was evaporated by the Black Mountain Gong, and the moisture evaporated from his clothes, turning them dry again.
The old Taoist priest and Guard Li were quite exhausted.
One is an ordinary person.
One is a fat, greasy man.
The clothes were almost wet.
The two of them had a feeling of being trapped in the world, and they followed Jin An and Xi Jian in sympathy. They were so tired that they were all wet and a little embarrassed. They didn't know whether they were sweating from exhaustion or soaked by the moisture in the mountains.
Because there was an old Taoist priest who was a wandering Taoist priest, a few people carried the old Taoist priest's secret repellent pills with them and shuttled through the dense forest, but they were not harassed by mosquitoes, leeches, or poisonous insects.
However, Jin An and the others now encountered a difficult problem.
The mountains were covered with shrubs and dense forests. Jin'an and the others were lost. They had been wandering around in the mountains for a long time and still couldn't find the hanging road.
Although there is guidance from brothers Sun Ping.
But Jin'an and the others are outsiders.
It was the first time to enter the Wushanling Mountains.
People's direction perception in the mountains is poor, and a small deviation may lead to the harder they work on the wrong road, the more mistakes they make. It is not uncommon to accidentally take a fork in the road.
"Old Taoist, you guys wait for me where you are. I'll find a high place and identify our current location in the mountains."
After Jin An finished speaking, the man quickly jumped up to the crown of the tallest ancient tree nearby like a monkey in the sky.
When Jin An rushed up to the tree canopy, a large number of birds suddenly appeared in the nearby quiet mountain forest, covering the sky and the sun.
I actually heard a few tiger roars.
The clock of creation is beautiful, the yin and yang cut off the dusk. The clouds are born in the breasts, and the returning birds come in from the canthus. When the summit reaches the top, you can see all the mountains and small mountains.
From a high position, you can overlook the boundless green forest below.
Jin An's life was agitated.
I thought that the artistic conception in the poem could not be better than this.
Jin'an, who was agitated in his heart, jumped like a light dragon on the tree crown, his figure was elegant and free and easy, stepping on the mountain forest clouds and mist at his feet, like a Taoist master in the mountains soaring in the clouds and mist, leaping two or three miles in one breath on the tree crown, and then he heard
The sound of rushing water.
After flying another mile, I finally saw the tributary of the Yinyi River flowing through the mountains.
This tributary flows from top to bottom, pouring down from the mountains and rivers, and finally merges into the main road of the Yinyi River. It is one of several important water sources of the Yinyi River.
After touching about half a stick of incense, Jin An turned back and continued on his way with the others.
According to the guidance of brothers Sun Ping, after entering the mountain, first find this tributary of the Yinyi River, and then follow this river upstream.
When you see a dead tree that was struck by lightning, you start walking in the direction away from the sun. After a while, you can see the hanging road.
Because Sun Ping and Brother Zhao Youcai had followed Taoist Tiejuan and entered the mountains many times and were already familiar with the mountain environment, it might only take them half a day to get there.
But for Jin An and his friends, who were visiting Jinshan Town for the first time, it took them a long time to finally find the Hanging Road.
When he saw the cliff road standing on the mountain wall like a miraculous workmanship, the old Taoist priest's legs, which were already old, trembled.
"It is said that businessmen are only interested in profit. I don't know how those traveling businessmen in the past had the courage to discover this shortcut to Cangshan Mansion."
"Little brother, do you think such cliffs and mountain roads are really formed naturally by miraculous craftsmen? Or were they dug out by traveling businessmen themselves?"
Jin An did not immediately accept the old Taoist priest's words.
He first looked up at the sky above him.
There are lush shrubs in the mountains, and the canopies of the trees are spread out, blocking out the sky and the sun. The sky in the mountains gets darker earlier than outside. It is gloomy in the mountains, but the sun has not yet set outside.
Then, with Jin An taking the lead to explore the road, a group of four people began to walk on the suspended road.
The order of the teams is Jin An, Old Taoist, Li Huwei, and Xiejian.
The old Taoist priest with old arms and legs was protected in the middle of the team.
After walking onto the cliff road, Jin An answered the old Taoist priest's question: "In my opinion, this suspended road should be half naturally formed and half dug by the villagers of Taoyuan Village themselves."
"I don't know how many years ago, before Taoyuan Village became a headless village, it must have been a village full of living people. The ancestors of these people fled into the mountains and old forests to avoid the war."
"After hiding from the world for a long time, our descendants must have thought about getting out of the mountains, so generations of people, like Foolish Old Man moving mountains, slowly carved out the steep cliff road on the steep mountain wall, bit by bit, and widened it, so this hanging road was born."
The reason why Jin An said this was because he saw traces of artificial excavations on this cliff road, which were not naturally formed after weathering of the mountain.
Examples of artificially carved mountain roads like the one mentioned by Jin An were common in ancient times when traffic was limited, and were not unusual.
Jin An pointed to several artificial excavation marks on the cliff road and then continued to walk forward: "It's just that I don't know what happened later, and all the people in the village died. Maybe it was because the village was too closed.
, intermarriage among relatives led to the extinction of the entire village; or perhaps other special events led to the extinction..."
"However, I am more inclined to believe that Taoyuan Village died in a special accident."
As we walked, we talked, and when we reached the middle section, the cliff road became increasingly difficult to walk because the mountain terrain became more complicated, and the slope became more and more steep.
The old Taoist priest was afraid of heights and did not dare to look down at his feet. He wished he could imitate a gecko and lie down on the sloping mountain wall with his whole body.
But as the cliff road became more and more difficult, it often took a long time to move five steps or ten feet. The old Taoist priest couldn't help but lower his head and glance at the cliff at his feet. His legs went weak and he almost lost his grip.
The prison cliff fell, but fortunately Jin An had quick eyesight and quick hands to stabilize the old Taoist priest in time.
"Old Taoist, since you are afraid of heights, don't lower your head and look at your feet. The more you look at your feet, the worse your fear of heights will be." Jin An said.
"My mother, little brother, you said that people who are afraid of heights always have the urge to jump down when standing on high places? I was scared to death just now. Thanks to you, little brother, for giving me a hand. Otherwise,
Little brother, you have to wait another eighteen years before you can see me again."
The old Taoist priest said with lingering fear.
Jin An continued to walk ahead to explore the road and explained casually: "People have the subconscious mind to seek good luck and avoid disaster. When people are at high altitudes and look down at the ground below, their subconscious mind will tell us that it is dangerous to stand at high places and we must stay away from danger.
It’s safest to stay on the ground quickly when you’re at high places.”
"So when people stand at high places, they always have the urge to jump."
After hearing Jin An's words, the old Taoist's face became even more bitter: "This is not down-to-earth. I think the old Taoist will fall to the ground and turn into a pulp."
"In the end, the tigers and beasts in the mountains turned into excrement."
Jin An nodded in agreement, but did not refute the old Taoist priest's words: "This seems to be called visual deviation."
"So sometimes what you see is not necessarily what you believe. You have to learn to judge by yourself."
In order to distract the old Taoist priest from looking down at his feet, Jin An chatted with the old Taoist priest along the way to distract the latter.
The patter--
The slanting wind mixed with drizzle, and it actually started raining in the mountains.
The rain came and dissipated quickly, and it didn't take long for it to clear up again.
The weather in the mountains is like this.
Sometimes it's sunny and sometimes it's rainy, it's unpredictable.
After the rain, the mountain road became even more slippery and dangerous. Jin An shouted, "Watch your step." After being more careful, he led the way more cautiously.
Fortunately, there was only a short section of the cliff road with a sharp slope. The four of them quickly bypassed this section, and the rest of the road became smooth again.
Of course.
The smooth road here is only compared to the most dangerous road before.
Even if the road is smooth, it is still narrow and difficult to walk, and rocks will fall from time to time overhead.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, do you think the villagers in Taoyuan Village were walking on this mountain road and their heads were hit by rocks falling from the mountain above them? Each of their heads was opened and red, so they turned into headless corpses?
"
Guard Li, who was second to last in the team, said out of the blue.
To be continued...