Gongqing bone

Chapter 74

The sound in the woods was also eerie and eerie, instead of the cheerful chirping of birds, it was the ghostly chirping of eagle owls;

Snake Xinzi spat out, making a "hissing" sound in the wind from time to time, stirring up the air that was sluggish because of the fog.

Just after Xue Feibai slandered countless times, Jin Hua finally brought a piece of good news: "My lord, we are here!"

Xue Feibai stretched his neck vigorously and looked up, only to see the end of the tall tree - the sky.

In the dense forest where the east, west, north, and south directions can't be distinguished, there are more than ten towering trees piercing into the sky. The people in Jinhua Village built a wooden plank road connecting the middle of the trees, like a corridor in the air.

The diameter of the tree ranges from two feet to four feet. The short one is about twelve feet, and the longest one is estimated to be eighteen feet. When you climb to the top of the tree, the stars seem to be within reach; Xue Fei whitely touched the gray-brown tree. Sigh: Obediently, what a big tree~
Du Heng picked up a fruit that had fallen on the ground and twirled it:
"There is a cloud in Du Shaoling's "Guba Xing": "There is an old cypress in front of the Kongming Temple, and the Ke is like a bronze root like a stone; the frost skin slips in the rain forty weeks, and the black color towers two thousand feet." Although two thousand feet is a bit exaggerated, but' It is more than enough to describe this tree as towering and tall;

But this tree is rare and fruit-drops frequently, presumably because of the meaning of God's meaning of "fullness suffers loss, modesty benefits". "

Xue Feibai: == Right, right, that's what I mean!
The only audience didn't pay attention to him at all. Jin Hua's eyes were filled with admiration for Du Heng, as if all the stars in the sky were in her eyes:
"Young master, we call this tree 'Superior Tree'. This tree has been around since I was here. I heard from my father that this tree is excellent for making furniture and boats, so it was cut down very quickly. There are dozens of trees left; my father ordered that felling is strictly prohibited, and later he built this plank road in the dangerous forest, and it is much more convenient to enter and exit..."

Du Heng looked back at her with a smile and said: "'It takes time for an ax to enter the mountains and forests, and the timber is useless'. Jinhua, your father not only believes in Taoism, but also has a benevolent heart of Confucianism!"

Jinhua took a deep breath, resisting the tears in her eyes, but the sobs in her throat still revealed her grief: the suffering mother, sister, father whose life and death are unknown, Brother, how can I not be sad!

When Du Heng looked at her like this, he also felt very sympathetic and sentimental:

"I remember seeing such a tall tree when I was a child. It was so tall that I could only see its crown when I lay down on the ground... When I was a child, I thought that nature is really amazing. Human beings are so small in front of many things, why are they so small? What is the most arrogant? My brother taught me a poem at this time: 'God's will is never high and difficult to ask'..."

Xue Feibai was a little strange: Where is Du Heng's brother?Doesn't she only have three half-sisters?Could it be cousin, cousin?
"Jinhua, although it's 'humanity is old and easy to be sad', but at least you are not alone! Your relatives are waiting for you to save them from the endless darkness, you know that!" Du Holding Jin Hua's arm, Heng said solemnly.

Xue Feibai was also very excited to look at it. I didn't expect Du Heng to have such a strong ability to empathize with others. Looking at her expression and expression, those who didn't know thought she was the one who had a deep hatred and her family desperately needed to be rescued!

Seeing that Jin Hua wanted to hug Du Heng shamelessly again, Xue Feibai immediately tore the two of them apart: "There is no time, so I don't have much to say, let's go up the tree and find out the truth!"

After finishing speaking, Xue Feibai took the lead in raising one of Jinhua's arms, motioned for Du Heng to support the other side of Jinhua, and performed lightness kung fu to climb the tree.

The three of them were just looking for a foothold on the tall tree canopy, when they were shocked by the scene in front of them and couldn't speak.

Their position is so high that they have a panoramic view of everything nearby:
The direction of the stockade is in the east, which is also the direction when they first entered the forest. The more the New Year's Eve, the less popular it is. There are only sporadic houses lit in the huge stockade, like will-o'-the-wisps in the tomb;
If there really is a Nian beast in the myths and legends, this is simply the best hiding place for it in Yunnan.

Looking to the north, the root of a mountain range is against the trend of the Tibetan front. If you go further north, the whole mountain is like a dragon that is about to transform into a dragon, soaring up through the clouds and fog.

Thinking about it, this is the majestic Hengduan Mountains stretching thousands of miles.

The Nanmi Lanzhang River in the west is shrouded in mist, and the black water is surging.Sometimes it "passes away completely, the deep is silent", and the direction of the flow is unknown; sometimes the sea boils and the mountains shake, the waves are high and the water is fast, rushing and surging to Annan, and finally merge into the South China Sea.

Such a magnificent and intense beauty is not as dazzling as the dripping blood in the southwest corner of the dense forest here:

A large area of ​​woods there was burned directly, and the scorched dead wood was like a broken limb of a human body, twisted to point to the sky, and issued the last silent complaint of blood and tears;
Black ash is everywhere, the wind blows, and the branches and leaves no longer sway, only the black smoke like snowflakes is raised, and the charred corpses of animals that have no time to escape are all over the ground.

If it were not blocked by a large swamp, the forest fire would probably reach the Nanmi Lanzhang River; even so, at least one hectare of land and good trees would be buried under the licking of the flames.

Not only that, but a few clean places were cleared on the burnt blackened ground, and a few simple sheds were built, adjacent to several large pits that were inexplicably blown out; whether it was people or utensils, they were all stacked under the sheds, Like a dense ant nest.

Many hands and feet are tied with chains, stacked under the shed, so many people are crowded together to sleep and dare not complain, only one or two torches are lit around; it should be the men from the village, who were driven here to dig mine.

There are also a few sheds piled with messy utensils, nothing more than gold pans, sand trays, camp lamps, and beams. The latter two are waiting to be used in the mine, and the first two are used for gold panning.

The place where the fire was burned was not far from the end of the cable bridge.

Xue Feibai and Du Heng looked at it from a distance and felt shocked.How could Jinhua feel pain when she saw her people being enslaved and their homes burned?
Her bulging eyes were bloodshot, her fingers were unconsciously clenched, and the tiny branches pricked the blood in her palm, but she didn't realize it, and it mixed with the green grass juice into a strange color.

Du Heng took a deep look at her, as if seeing himself half a year ago.

"...Destroy my homeland, kill my people, this hatred, this hatred, we cannot share the sky!" Xue Fei looked at Jinhua, she seemed to be much calmer, but her calmness was terrifying.

Like gray embers with only a little red, and like magma that flows slowly and seems sluggish, as long as she seizes the opportunity, it will form a prairie fire and burn everything.

(End of this chapter)