Chapter 40 Mountain Boy
Mountain boy.
The child with pure heart is not an ordinary person, he is a god among the mountains who protects the area.
He is strong and kind-hearted, like a child, likes to play tricks without any malice. In ancient times, he was also called the mountain god.
Go deep into the mountains and offer rice balls, where you can see mountain children.
————"A Hundred Demons: Collection of Remnants, Volume 1, Cloud"
"my stomach!"
Kamikawa woke up in the middle of the night and let out a scream, which scared Kitamura next door and woke him up as well.
"Beicun, look, my stomach has completely disappeared!"
Shangchuan said excitedly, pointing at Kitamura's belly, "Your big belly is gone, we are really back to normal!"
The lights in the room were on all night.
After Kitamura's eyes gradually adjusted to the light in the room, he looked down at his stomach.
The belly that was as big as that of a pregnant woman had indeed disappeared, leaving only a surgical scar of about five centimeters below the belly button.
He reached out and stroked it gently, feeling a little unreal and a little lost at the same time.
The caesarean section was successful, so what about the baby in his belly?
Even though he knew very well that the child was not a normal creature and should not have been born by a grown man like him.
But after a few days of pregnancy, I couldn't help but feel some subtle emotions in my heart.
Sometimes when I dream at night, I have imagined what the creature in the fetus would look like and whether it would be similar to me.
People often say that mother and child are connected by heart, so isn’t the bond between father and son also that of blood?
"Kitamura, what are you daydreaming about? Why do you look so unhappy?" Kamikawa asked in confusion.
“I wonder where our children are now.”
"..."
Shangchuan was silent, then spoke angrily: "What our child! Even if there is one, it's a freak! A ghost baby! I just want to stay away from it! I don't care whether it's dead or alive!"
"Hey, Kamikawa, this is our own karma. No matter how much you deny it, you can't change this fact."
"This is clearly a curse! A curse from a mountain ghost!" Shangchuan's face suddenly became excited.
"Have you forgotten the sacrilege you committed in that cave?"
Hearing this, Shangchuan turned pale, and his right index finger pointed at Kitamura and trembled, "You, you, you are the same as me?"
"Yes, I committed such blasphemous acts before you did."
Beicun lowered his head in shame, his hands tightly grasped the quilt around him, and his voice became a little weaker.
He didn't figure out the reason at first, until he had a few conversations with the monk, he gradually understood the cause and effect of all these things.
There is a cause, and then there is a consequence.
"..."
Shangchuan was stunned for a long time, cursing in his heart, and finally warned Kitamura: "We can just keep this to ourselves, don't tell anyone, I still want to save some face to see others."
After saying that, he slapped his cheek again, "Damn it, you only know how to save face now, what were you doing before!"
Kitamura just glanced at Kamikawa silently, and his mind went to the mountains.
He had a premonition that the baby he had just given birth to should be in the mountains at this moment.
Outside the door, Nakamura Shihei and Tsuchiya Ma, who had not slept all night, were eavesdropping.
They were attracted at first by Kamikawa's exclamation, and later by the content of the conversation between the two.
"Why did you stop talking about the key point?"
Nakamura Shihei complained in a low voice. He also wanted to know what blasphemous behavior Kamikawa and Kitamura had done to bring about the curse of having children.
"If you want to know, you can go in and ask the person involved."
Tsuchiyama patted Nakamura Shihei's shoulder, then turned and walked towards Heimiya Chiye who was still sitting on the stone bench playing with her cell phone.
"Master, I want to buy a lucky charm that can ward off evil spirits and ghosts, and I also want to have a consecrated Buddha statue at home."
Tsuchiya directly stated what he wanted.
"The amulet is not difficult to make." Pinggong Qianye put down his phone, thought for a moment and said, "Did you bring the consecrated Buddha statue yourself?"
"what?"
"If you have a Buddha statue at home, you can bring it directly. A Buddha statue that has been worshipped at home for a long time is more likely to protect your family members."
“Can I still use an old Buddha statue when consecrating it?”
There is a feeling of refreshing the worldview in the earthen house.
Although he didn't know much about this kind of thing, he knew that consecration was a ceremony held on an auspicious day after the Buddha statue was sculpted.
"Both old and new are Buddha statues, a manifestation of the Buddha in the world. Why do we insist on distinguishing between new and old Buddha statues?"
“But I heard that other temples use new Buddha statues and choose auspicious days to consecrate them…” The voice in the earthen house was a little low.
Making money. This was the first thought that came to Pinggong Qianye's mind.
It is undeniable that consecrating new Buddha statues is more acceptable to people.
The principle of liking the new and disliking the old is an eternal principle.
We cannot rule out the possibility that some large temples may have too many Buddha statues to purchase for consecration, and are unable to consecrate them one by one, so they can only choose an auspicious day and time to consecrate a large area.
"what ever."
Pinggong Chiye gave the choice to Tsuchiyama himself, and told him the location of Weilian Ancient Temple, asking him to come to the temple to find him when he has time in the future.
……
The next day, when the sun rose over the mountain.
After finishing his two-hour training in the early morning, He no longer needed to sleep to restore his spirit.
Just meditating for an hour or two in the early hours of the morning is enough to restore your spirit and energy.
On the other side, Nakamura Shihei, who was staying up late, was woken up by the alarm clock and walked out of the room yawning.
Kamikawa and Kitamura, who had trouble sleeping last night, woke up when they heard the noise outside.
Kitamura explicitly expressed his desire to follow Chiya Hiramiya and Shihei Nakamura up the mountain, but was stopped by Tsuchiyama.
Although the operation last night was not serious, their physical condition suddenly deteriorated drastically and they need a good rest and recuperation.
"Master, I am willing to repent and atone for my previous blasphemous behavior."
Seeing Kitamura's sincere words, Pinggong Qianye smiled and said, "I will convey this confession for you."
"me……"
Kamikawa on the other bed hesitated for a few times, but ultimately couldn't save his face.
"Let's go."
Hiramiya Chiye asked Nakamura Shihei to lead the way and walked up the mountain along the constructed road.
On the way, Nakamura Zhiping finally couldn't help being curious, "Master, what on earth are you and Kitamura talking about?"
“There are always some things that should not be said.”
Hiramiya Chiye smiled and decided to let Kamikawa and Kitamura decide whether to make the matter public.
After all, not everyone can afford the price of social death.
"Could it be related to the local legend of the mountain god?" Nakamura Shihei asked tentatively.
"If you knew the truth, your belly would swell up and you would get pregnant and give birth to a child, would you still want to know?"
Nakamura Shihei knew that this must be a deliberate teasing remark by Pinggong Qianye, but he did not dare to take the risk himself, so he could only choose to keep silent.
The two walked up the mountain path when suddenly a white fog came from the front, covering the forest in front.
"Hey, there wasn't any fog when we went up the mountain at this time before."
Nakamura Shihei looked a little flustered.
"Quiet."
Pinggong Qianye stopped and looked into the depths of the fog.
Soon, a figure crossed the fog, stood between the mountains and forests, and revealed his head.
He had a head of withered white hair tied up with a straw rope, a horn protruding from his forehead, one eye, and his upper and lower lips were slightly parted, revealing snow-white teeth.
mountain god?
This must be the god of this mountain!
Nakamura Shihei was horrified, but did not dare to speak, for fear of attracting the attention of the mountain god. He quietly moved his body and hid behind Pinggong Chiye.
"You look much better than I expected."
Pinggong Qianye commented and looked over the shoulders of the mountain boy in front of him.
There, each sitting was a miniature version of a mountain boy, the children born from Kawa and Kitamura's bellies last night.
They have grown from ten centimeters last night to about twenty centimeters.
The temperature rises with the wind, one year higher every day.
The mountain boy nodded towards Pinggong Qianye with a kind smile, and pointed his finger towards the deeper part of the forest. Then his figure gradually disappeared into the forest along with the mist.
"Just leave like this?"
Nakamura Shihei was a little confused and thought that it was just an illusion that he suddenly had.
"Come on, take me to the cave."
"Oh, senior monk, please come this way."
Nakamura Shihei came to his senses, suppressed all the doubts in his mind, and led Heimiya Chiye to the original scene of the accident.
(End of this chapter)
