Chapter Twelve The Old Man Cutting Grass

  The next day, as soon as it was dawn, Yu Gen Shun climbed to the top of Liangshan Peak.

  Last night, classmate Yu Xiaoling didn't return, and Chu Nan found a place to rest in the town. It just so happened that Chu Nan had to go to Pingyang today, so she could take Yu Xiaoling along. Yu Xiaoling is a high school sophomore at Pingyang No. 1 Middle School, and returned home for Labor Day, but caught a cold and was delayed for several days, only recovering yesterday.

  The mountain is steep and precipitous, but the southern half of the summit seems to have been cut off by a sword, leaving a platform of over 10 acres in mid-air, making people marvel at the ingenuity of nature.

  The northern mountain body is tens of meters high and steep, but below the cliff is a giant stone over 10 meters high. This giant stone is actually the core of the mountain top, round, smooth, hard, and is called a "stone egg". The stone egg reflects a bright green color in the sunlight, its texture is clearly different from the surrounding rocks, and the part exposed on the surface and behind the mountain wall is only a corner of an iceberg.

  In the mountain legend, the immortal's one sword was to make this stone egg break out of the ground and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the light of the sun and moon - could it be that a monkey king would hatch from it?

  The former Dadao Hall was built with its back against this stone egg.

  The stone egg is still the same as before, but the Great Knife Hall has long since turned to dust. Some of the beams and tiles remain, and the foundation is still there, barely visible in its former outline. The south side of the Great Knife Hall was a small school field, now overgrown with tall grass. "Ji Re" chapter updates are the fastest.

  The small school grounds further south, reached the edge of the platform. The mountain road trampled by pedestrians was like a ribbon, hanging crookedly on the slope, and also like a small stream winding down.

  In his past life, Zhang Sanfeng would go down the mountain every day at 5 am - err, okay, excluding those few days when Yu Nu first arrived at Liangshan.

  The ladle handle goes up and down the mountain, never taking the usual path. It walks on steep cliffs and dense forests of thorns, coming and going suddenly, with extreme speed. Moreover, it must take a new path every day, with the goal of treading all over the green mountains.

  From Zangma Town to Liangshan Village, it's about 7 or 8 kilometers of mountain road. From Liangshan Village to the top of Liangshan Mountain, it's also about 7 or 8 kilometers, but these 7 or 8 kilometers are completely different from those 7 or 8 kilometers. For a young and strong man, walking from Zangma Town to Liangshan Village takes about an hour. But from Liangshan Village to the top of Liangshan Mountain, it may take two or three hours.

  And the total dipper handle doesn't care which direction it comes from, left and right for half a time. When returning to the top of the mountain, it was just a red sun bursting out from the east, and the total dipper handle would sit on the stone egg behind the big knife hall to inhale and exhale.

  The sun rises early. The azalea is red all over. In the fourth month of the lunar calendar, Cangma Mountain is at its best for the whole year.

  Yu Gen Shun sat on a stone egg with his legs crossed, but he was unintentionally spitting out air.

  It's all gone, really all gone, everything is gone.

  Before arriving at the Dadao Temple site, Yu Gen Shun first found the cave where Yuni was hiding. The tangled vines and wild grass had sealed the entrance tightly, apparently this place had been unknown to people for a long time. Yu Gen Shun pulled open the vines with force and crawled into the cave. The cave was not large, inside it was dark and damp.

  The stone where Yù Nú once sat is still there, covered in a layer of dust.

  I and Yu Nu part here. Who knows when we will meet again.

  Yu Nu, what has happened since I left? Sixty years have passed, are you still alive? Where are you? You were just a weak woman...

  One by one, the scenes of Yu Nu and her interactions with others were clearly etched in Rong Jun's mind.

  Yunü was originally the "Stone Family's Old Duck", a young girl of the Stone family, but the head of the Stone family wanted to give Yunü to the little devil from Pingyang County town who weighed nine jin and four liang.

  Yu Nu had already made up her mind to die, first stabbing the little devil and then killing herself.

  "Now being captured by the hero and taken up the mountain stronghold is also Yu Nu's fate. If the hero does not despise her, Yu Nu is willing to offer herself on his bed."

  If the hero sends Yunu back to the Shi family, Yunu's reputation will be completely ruined and it won't be mentioned again. The head of the Shi clan will still send Yunu to the ghost child to lose her life.

  "Stop pretending to be a heroic hall, it's better to let Yuniu die in this Heroic Hall!"

  The jade beads fell with a crisp sound, and the red mouth and white teeth were filled with tears. This was the scene when Yunu was just intercepted by her brothers in front of the Big Knife Hall, holding a shiny pair of scissors. The Big Knife Hall was decorated with lanterns and streamers, and the total pot was taken over by the Suppressing Wife.

  Yu Nu is probably pregnant...

  "What's there? What is it?"

  "You're dead!"

  "What?! I'm going to be a dad?! Let's get drunk!"

  The Da Dao Tang was once again decorated with lanterns and streamers, celebrating the birth of a new baby. It was early in the morning on April 8th. The banquet had not yet begun when the enemy planes arrived. Zhang Daodao was injured, Ma Wangye was killed, and more than half of the three hundred brothers were lost.

  "Don't go out!" In this cave, Yu Jiao touched Yuniang's belly.

  "Yu Nu is waiting for you, Wa is waiting for you." Yu Nu grasped Yu Jia Ao's hand and refused to let go.

  "Protect her!" Yu Jia'ao left behind a younger brother, shot in the leg.

  This departure has become an eternal farewell. If everything were to start all over again, would I still walk out of this cave? Yu Gen Shun interrogated himself.

  When re-sealing the cave entrance, Yu Ru Song was already in tears.

  Just as Yu Gen Shun sat on the stone egg with a complicated mood, an old man suddenly climbed up from the small path in the south of the small school field.

  The old man was not young, but he was spirited. He wore a soft hat without a brim on his head, a white upper garment with a straight collar and buttoned placket. His trousers were black and loose, tied at the waist. On his feet were a pair of thousand-layer-soled round-mouthed black cloth shoes. The shoes and trouser legs were covered in mud, but his upper garment was very clean.

  Yu Gen Shun saw the person but didn't have the mood to care. After a while, Yu Gen Shun felt that something was off again, what exactly was it?

  Right, his clothes!

  Yu Gen Shun looked at his own clothes, and in Chu Nan's words, this was a cheap sportswear set. But what the old man wore on him was his familiar attire! Last night Yu Gen Shun saw nearly two hundred people, understanding the current dress of mountain people. Why is this old man still wearing the old style... um, pre-Liberation...

  At this age, he can climb to the top of the mountain, and his body is still quite good. Yu Gen Shun can also see that the old man has practiced some boxing techniques. Moreover, the old man's body has a subtle murderous aura, as well as the majesty of a superior person. The sharp edges have been retracted, leaving only a hint of feeling. It's different from the ferocity shown by people like Wu Kui and Ma Changfu.

  From the stone pedestal to the old man's position, it was about two hundred meters apart, but with Yu Gen Shun's eyesight, he could naturally see clearly. However, the old man did not notice that there was still someone sitting here.

  The old man faced east and stood still for a while, then put the pocket on his waist to the ground, took out a sickle from the pocket, and squatted on the ground to cut the grass. Yu Gen Shun only noticed that a large area of empty land had been cut over there, and the thatched grass was dry. Obviously, he wasn't here to cut grass for the first time.

  Climb all the way up to the top of Liangshan Mountain just to cut grass?

  After a while, the old man stood up, stretched his hand to his back, patted his waist, and then took out another bottle from that pocket, unscrewed the cap and took a sip.

  Huh, is that the smell of wine? Good wine! Yu Gen Shun sniffed it and from yesterday's resurrection till now, he hadn't had a drink yet...

  "Hi! Friend!"

  Yu Gen Shun called out, "Wine has always been something that doesn't distinguish between families, right?"

  The old man was shocked, he looked around and finally saw Yu Gen Shun on the stone egg. However, his eyes were clearly somewhat flustered, as if he didn't quite believe his own eyes, and he rubbed them hard again.

  Then the old man's emotions became agitated, and he rushed towards this side with a burst of speed, although his feet stumbled, but his speed was not slow. Looking at him running, he didn't look like an old man, but rather like a child.

  In a moment, the old man ran to the bottom of the stone egg, staring at Yu Gen Shun with wide eyes, his mouth corners trembling as if he had seen a long-lost close relative.

  "You, you, you..."

  The old man suddenly turned red with rage, pointing at Yu Gen Shun with a wine bottle and shouting loudly, "Who allowed you to come up? What right do you have to sit here?"

  That tone, that expression, seems as if he's sitting on a huge boulder, but in fact, he's sitting on his family's ancestral tomb.

  What am I sitting on? Why can't I sit on it?! Yu Gen Shun Xin, that's depressing. I'm just saying hello to you, of course, if you could give me some wine to drink, that would be even better. What are you so excited about?

  "Hey you! Get down here!" The old man's temper was still quite fiery.

  Yu Gen Shun became even more depressed, what do you mean? Don't think that just because you're older I won't dare to fight you. I've been sitting on this rock for a whole year, from April 1939 to April 1940. Now, can't sit anymore?

  However, looking at this old man, he really is desperate. Alright, you're too old, I don't want to fight with you. Yu Gen Shun jumped down and stood one meter in front of the old man.

  The old man was stunned again, and his eyes became confused once more. He shook his head vigorously, as if trying to shake off some thought.