Chapter 26: Fruit of the Mountain God
After hearing this, Xu's mother and Xu Runiang tried to peel the skin and found that the persimmon had a very thin outer skin that could be torn off with a slight tear.
If peeled well, the skin is so thin that it is almost transparent.
They both tried licking the skin and indeed tasted that astringent taste. But when you taste the flesh in the middle, the rich bittersweet taste immediately fills your entire mouth; it is pure, mellow and very soft.
Compared with the kiwi fruit I’ve eaten before, persimmons are sweeter and softer.
They couldn't bear to eat it anymore, so they ate the skin as well.
Yu Zhongdou ate faster than the other two and found that if he ate the fruit with the skin, the astringent taste was very obvious and would take a while to get rid of.
However, by the time he "persuaded" them not to eat the skin, it was too late.
Xu's mother and Xu Runiang: "..."
If you hadn't told us earlier, we would have finished eating!
Yu Zhongdou: "Do you want to pick another one?"
Xu's mother refused and said, "It's fine if you try one. If you try another, the mountain god will be angry. You are not allowed to pick any more. You can pick them after you offer sacrifices to the mountain god tomorrow."
"Then...this chestnut?" Yu Zhongdou's eyes fell on the chestnut tree next to him.
The only problem is, why are these chestnuts different from the ones the village chief brought back?
He remembered that the thing the village chief gave him to plant was brown, smooth, and as thick as a finger. How come the ones growing on the tree were thorn balls as big as a baby's fist?
Yu Zhongdou wanted to walk over to get a clearer look, but a thorn ball fell from above his head and hit him right on the forehead.
"Ouch……"
The sharp thorn hit his forehead and left a bloody mark.
Yu Zhongdou felt pain and jumped over quickly.
Xu's mother and Xu Runiang were also shocked. They checked the blood mark on Yu Zhongdou's head, knelt on the ground on the spot, and pulled Yu Zhongdou to kowtow to the mountain god, saying that they knew they were wrong and that they should not have secretly picked persimmons without the mountain god's knowledge.
On the mountain, Yang Xiangwei, who was immersed in cultivation, knew nothing.
If he knew, he would be speechless.
——I didn’t do anything, please don’t put all the blame on me, okay?
——I am God, I am not “idle”!
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Yu Zhongdou's uncle Xu Zhong returned to Qinghe Village.
Just as he guessed, the people in Qinghe Village were not completely wiped out.
They were said to have been massacred, but in fact only a few who had gone out to visit relatives escaped, and two or three others hid in the cellar.
But there was no other family like theirs that had personally experienced the "wolf hunting" roundup and escaped.
"You are still alive?!" Carpenter Zhao's eyes were red when he saw him, "I thought you... where have you been? Do you know that something happened in our village..."
Xu Zhong's eyes also turned red. How could he not know that something happened in Qinghe Village? He was there on the day the accident happened, okay?
"I know, I ran away that day..." He told Carpenter Zhao that the whole village was surrounded by wolf hunters that day.
Hundreds of hunting wolves surrounded the entire village.
When he and his family ran away, the wolf-hunting beast sent a wolf to follow them all the way to Yilan Village.
"What?! Hundreds?!"
"They followed you to Yilan Village?!"
"What about Yilan Village? Yilan Village won't also..."
Carpenter Zhao quickly grabbed Xu Zhong's clothes and asked what was happening in Yilan Village.
He has some relatives in all the nearby villages. One of his aunts married in Yilan Village.
Xu Zhong said: "Don't worry, Yilan Village is fine. If anything happens to Yilan Village, I won't be able to come back."
Although it was a bit bad to think that way, Carpenter Zhao didn't understand. There were also hundreds of hunting wolves, and the same people were chased by hunting wolves, so why didn't anything happen in Yilan Village?
Could it be that he was full after hunting wolves?
Xu Zhong didn't know what he was thinking, so he just continued, "Do you know why Yilan Village was able to survive from the mouths of hundreds of hunting wolves?"
"Why?"
"Because their village is protected by the mountain god."
Carpenter Zhao:? ? ? ?
What's the meaning?
What mountain god?
Didn’t the village chief of Yilan Village dislike the evil god’s greed and not want to perform human sacrifices? Why did he suddenly invite the god again?
When he learned from Xu Zhong that the mountain god of Yilan Village did not accept human sacrifices, he only needed to offer him the best things in his home, a bowl of water, a handful of wild vegetables, an egg...
Carpenter Zhao's eyes widened: "Impossible! Gods are greedy, there are no such gods!"
"I personally experienced it, how could it be false?" Xu Zhong said, "I saw with my own eyes the sacrifices held in their village, which consisted of rice, flour, grains and vegetables from their homes, a few fruits from the mountains, and clear water that had been stagnant all night..."
Why is it clear water that has been settling all night? Because there is a famine now, and the rivers outside have dried up to the point where it is hard to even drink a sip of water from the dry rivers.
Therefore, when offering sacrifices to the mountain god, the bowl of clear water was drawn from the river and allowed to settle overnight before being offered.
Even so, the mountain god did not despise them and even allowed them to go to Huangshan to fetch water.
There is a stretch of road from Yilan Village to Huangshan where you cannot get his protection and it is a bit unsafe, so you cannot go up the mountain to fetch water every day.
After that, they went up the mountain every few days. Every time they came back from fetching water, they would first save the bowl of clean water needed for sacrifice, to ensure that there would be a bowl of clean water to offer to the mountain god every day.
"Don't you know how powerful the Mountain God is? I saw it with my own eyes. That day, he hunted wolves and surrounded the Mountain God Temple..."
"Oh My God!"
"Those vines grew so tall that they strangled hundreds of wolf hunters. Not a single one survived."
"The kiwi fruit has a good temper. After it ate its fill that day, it gave us a lot of fruit to eat. Kiwi fruit is green with skin on the outside. After you peel it, you will find the flesh inside is very soft, sour and sweet. Both the elderly and children love to eat it."
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As Xu Zhong described the situation, Carpenter Zhao and the few remaining Qinghe villagers who were still alive showed expressions of envy.
Are there really such gods in this world?
If He does not perform human sacrifice, will He bless them and protect them? !
Xu Zhong: "Of course I have. That's why I came back. I want to invite the Mountain God to our village. As long as we have the Mountain God in our village, we won't have to worry about monsters rushing into the village..."
Hu Xiaoya burst into tears: "Really? Can he really protect us and not let us be eaten by monsters? Then why didn't he come earlier? If he had come earlier, my father, my mother, my grandfather, my grandmother, and my brother would not have been eaten by monsters..."
When Hu Daya started crying, the rest of the children also started crying.
Carpenter Zhao was heartbroken.
Yes, why didn’t He come earlier? If He had come earlier, their village would have invited the Mountain God earlier. Then wouldn’t it have been their village that was protected by the Mountain God that day?
His wife, children, father and mother would not be killed by hunting wolves.
Xu Zhong sighed. Yes, why didn’t the mountain god come earlier? If he had come earlier, they would have been invited back to the village earlier, and their village would not have suffered this disaster.
But can you really blame the mountain god?
cannot.
The mountain god has descended for some time, but how many people dare to enter that strange mountain?
No.
If the little girl from Yilan Village hadn't accidentally walked in...
So, this is fate!
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