Chapter 18 Chapter Sixteen: The Desperate Struggle at Yinniu Pond

When Master Tuo cleared away all the tree roots at the entrance of the cave, he also cut off the last tree root for himself to climb up. Master Zhang Yao couldn't help but said to himself: "This dumb man is not stupid! He is smarter and more cautious than anyone else in doing things!" Master Tuo looked up at Yaoye Zhang who was looking down at the entrance of the cave, and gestured for Yaoye Zhang to get out of the way so that he could come up.Master Zhang Yao asked Zhang Ziheng to squat down and got off Zhang Ziheng's shoulders. Master Tuo came out of the tree hole like a flexible monkey.

Master Tuo who got out was not idle either, he used the guillotine to chop up the branches scattered on the ground, and the snow that fell on the branches splashed under Tuo master's guillotine. Zhang Ziheng didn't understand what Master Tuo was trying to do, so he said to Master Zhang Yao: "Is this dumb man crazy? It seems that he has endless brute force?" Zhang Yaoye said angrily: "You are crazy! Master Tuo's brain is smarter than any of us. He wants to cover the hole with branches." Zhang Ziheng groaned and watched Master Tuo busy there. Master Tuo cut off a bunch of branches, and signaled to Zhang Yaoye that he needed help.Master Zhang Yao said to Zhang Ziheng, go help him, he can't reach him.

Zhang Ziheng and a few stupid boys built a ladder to send the branches to the stump, covering the entrance of the hole. After finishing his work, Zhang Ziheng said to Zhang Yaoye who was smoking leaf cigarettes: "Yaoye, covering it like this is not a solution. This hole is a future problem after all, so we have to think of a more comprehensive solution." Master Zhang Yao said: "Let's do this for the time being. The evildoers in the cave won't be able to come out for a while, and we'll figure out a way to get out when we get back. But let me start with the first thing, the things about this cave, after you go back one by one , Even if the Heavenly King Lao Tzu asks, he is not allowed to say a word to Lao Tzu. This hole is too evil, the fewer people who know it, the better, and we can’t piss off the evildoers in the underground anymore!”

Everyone nodded to Master Zhang Yao. Zhang Yaoye went to look at Brother Xi again, Brother Xi still stared blankly at the tree stump with those gray eyes like dead fish open. Zhang Yaoye sighed and said, "Don't be crazy like Zhang Zikun for the rest of your life! You are a person who hasn't lit the wax yet!" Zhang Ziheng said, "Master Yao, do you want Brother Xi to go back now?" Master Zhang Yao said, "Take it back!" "How about getting it back?" This is really a problem. Zhang Yaoye scratched the back of his head and said: "When I went back, I said that brother Xi ran too fast when chasing the snake, tripped over a stone, and broke his forehead, that's all."

Zhang Ziheng said, "Will people in the village believe this lie?" Zhang Yaoye said: "If you don't believe it, you have to believe it. Everyone is panicked, so we can't say weird things and go out to make trouble." So Zhang Ziheng sent two stupid boys Fuxi back home, and repeatedly told them how to tell lies to conceal the truth. Brother Xi was sent out of the forest, and Zhang Yaoye went over to sign with Master Tuo.Master Tuo was wandering around the covered tree stump, as if he was extremely worried about the covered hole. Zhang Yaoye gestured to Master Tuo to continue looking for the python.

Master Tuo looked at Zhang Yaoye who was gesturing towards him, and his yin and yang eyes shot fiercely, making Zhang Yaoye's hair stand on end.Master Zhang Yao scolded: "I'm your ancestor! Why don't you show your opinion! Look at me making eggs like this! It's as if I'm going to kill you." Master Tuo stared at Yaoye Zhang for a while, and then gesticulated frantically at Yaoye Zhang, seeming to be very excited.Master Zhang Yao was confused by Master Tuo's dumb words, and couldn't figure it out. Zhang Ziheng said from the side: "What does this strange man mean?"

Zhang Yaoye said impatiently: "Ghost knows what it means!" Master Tuo babbled and gesticulated towards Mr. Zhang Yaoye, then he lifted the sharp guillotine on his shoulder and walked in the direction where the python fled just now. Master Zhang Yao said to Zhang Ziheng and the other foolish boys, "Follow me." This time, the bloodstains left by the pythons in the old forest were very obvious. Although the light in the forest was very dim, the bloodstains of the pythons on the thorns could not be seen clearly, but the smell of blood along the way could lead Master Tuo and Zhang Yao Lord and the others followed the escape route of the boa constrictor.

The more he walked forward, the more uneasy Zhang Yaoye became. "Oops! It's going to be bad!" Master Zhang Yao said abruptly. Zhang Ziheng, who followed closely behind, said, "What's wrong with that?" Zhang Yaoye said: "The evildoer must have escaped to the drinking cow pond." Zhang Ziheng said: "I said just now that it fled in that direction. Originally, I wanted to keep chasing after it. First, I didn't know what to do because Master Tuo was not following. Second, I was worried that you would not follow, so I turned back." Zhang Yaoye said: "If you really escape to the Yinniu Pond, it will be a disaster."

Zhang Ziheng said: "Is it so suspenseful?" Zhang Yaoye said: "The suspense is still to come! It is true that God's sins are forgiven, but people's sins cannot live! Retribution! Alas!" Zhang Ziheng said: "Master Yao, I don't like to hear you say that. Who in the village committed crimes? Don't just talk about it!" Zhang Yaoye said: "You young ass bastard! Can the people in the village do a lot of evil? You are still young! You can't see many things at all." Zhang Ziheng said unconvinced: "Can you see it? Are you a fairy?"

Zhang Yaoye said: "I'll leave the words here first, this matter is not trivial. Have you ever seen a mine fall in the cold winter? It even split such a big tree! It's an anecdote!" Zhang Ziheng said: "Master Yao, you have to be responsible for what you say when you are so old. Now whoever spreads rumors is in trouble. Your mouth shouldn't be so loose." Zhang Yaoye said: "I don't know this yet? I'm just talking about it here." Zhang Ziheng told the foolish boys who followed behind: "Where did you hear what Master Yao said just now? Don't talk nonsense. If I know who has gone out and talked nonsense, I must take his skin off! "

Zhang Ziheng's vicious statement caused the stunned boys behind to look at each other. Looking for the bloody smell left by the python, the group finally walked out of the old forest.An oval pond with a width of three or four hundred acres appeared in front of him. This is the drinking pool. It is almost impossible to verify the name of Yinniu Pond. Its name should be tied to Woniu Mountain, including the current Woniu Village. Drinking Niu Pond is at the east end of the village, and to the north of the pond is Wo Niu Mountain. The Niu Tau makes a bend and stretches out into the pond.Decomposed from the geographical location, it is also very appropriate for this pond to be called the drinking cow pond. Regardless of drought or flood, the water in the drinking cow pond is always kept clear and shallow.This adds a bit of mystery to the pond. It is such a pond with clear water, but people in Woniu Village rarely visit it, because they have always been in awe of this pond.It is said that the water in the pond is drunk by the divine cow, and whoever disturbs the drinking water of the divine cow will suffer plague in his home! For generations, the ancestors have always had this kind of scruples in their hearts, so the bamboos, trees and reeds around this pond grow very luxuriantly.Even the wild lotus root growing in the mud by the pond has never been touched by anyone. People in the village believe that the emerald green lotus leaves that grow in summer are the shady cows in the drinking pool when they are tired, and the lotus roots buried in the mud in winter are the food for the cows to eat during the winter. In many cases, only with legends can there be awe, and only with awe can there be a balance of harmonious coexistence.Legends and feudal superstitions cannot be confused, but in those days, the confusion of concepts has already made everyone crazy and irrational. Perhaps Zhang Yaoye at that time had already felt that such madness would bring about disasters, so he had ominous doubts. The water in the cow pond is also quite magical.It is bitingly cool in summer, but warm water in winter.Other ditches, brooks, ponds, and canals were all frozen in thick ice, but the water in the cow-drinking pond was steamed with white mist. The sky had already darkened, and the white mist rising from the water surface of Yinniu Pond became thicker and thicker.The mist is suspended on the surface of the pond, making the pond appear somewhat mysterious. The surroundings of the pond are very quiet, and there is no trace of the pond being disturbed by anything. A group of people stood by the foggy cow-drinking pond, a little confused. Only Master Tuo walked around the pond. The weeds on the banks of the pond grew wildly and luxuriantly, with some as tall as your chest and as short as your knees.Perhaps because the water vapor around the pond was too heavy, the bloody smell left by the python mysteriously disappeared here. The snow on the weeds has almost melted, leaving only the remaining snow spots on it, which looks a bit desolate. The weeds were very wet, and the clothes and pants of Zhang Yaoye and the others were almost wet by the snow on the weeds. Zhang Ziheng said, "Why can't I see the trace of this thing entering the pond?" Zhang Yaoye looked around with his eyes and said, "Follow Master Tuo to look for it. If such a big thing really came out of this old forest, this pond should be the only place it can hide." Zhang Ziheng listened to Zhang Yaoye's words, and ordered the stunned boys who followed him to separate around the pond to look for clues that the boa constrictor had entered the cow drinking pond. Although they knew that the boa constrictor had been severely injured in the old forest, everyone was still concerned about such a big evil thing, and they were very cautious in the process of searching. Suddenly, Master Tuo's short figure disappeared into the weeds, as if he had disappeared suddenly in the weeds. In fact, when everyone was separately looking for the python by the pond, they were always looking at Master Tuo from the corner of their eyes.Master Tuo has now become the spiritual pillar of the group, and Master Tuo's figure suddenly disappeared in the weeds, and everyone was shocked. Zhang Ziheng was the most cautious person, he immediately shouted: "Where is Master Tuo? Why is Master Tuo missing?" Master Zhang Yao had also been paying attention to Master Tuo's movements, and he gestured to Zhang Ziheng to keep silent. Everyone immediately understood that there was something wrong with Master Tuo, and they all stared blankly at the patch of weeds where Master Tuo had disappeared. The patch of weeds where Master Tuo disappeared was the best growing weed by the pond. When Master Tuo searched in that area, the lush weeds almost overflowed his ears. But now, Master Tuo disappeared in the weeds.This is obviously an ominous signal. Zhang Ziheng and Zhang Yaoye began to approach the weeds tremblingly! Suddenly, I saw an evil head raised from the deep weeds! It's a snake head! It's the head of the python! The evil of this snake head can only be described as horror and trembling! Although Zhang Ziheng and Zhang Yaoye were a little bit psychologically prepared, they were also taken aback by the sudden appearance of the giant python, and they all exclaimed in unison. A few foolish boys were also trembling with fright. The giant python's head was raised very high, at least half a meter higher than the weeds, so that it was in a condescending position.Its head wandered and searched above the grass. It is also aware of the approaching danger! At this moment, Master Tuo's short figure appeared under the giant python's head. Seeing Master Tuo's figure appear under the eyelids again, the giant python shot out two yellow rays of light from its evil eyes, and it spit out a scarlet wick towards Master Tuo, and a thick white air from its nostrils. Master Tuo bowed and shrunk under the giant python's head, with his two long arms slightly open, as if he was ready to fight the giant python at any time. Although Zhang Ziheng and Zhang Yaoye were terrified, they still summoned up their only courage and approached the giant python and Master Tuo slowly. Suddenly, the giant python opened its jaws wide and grabbed Master Tuo's head. Master Tuo didn't just shake his head and body this time, but turned over like a kite, reached out and rode on the python's neck at an extremely fast and sensitive speed. The giant python's huge body rolled out of the weeds immediately, its white belly and blue back rolling and undulating among the grass. Master Tuo apparently restrained the giant python with his bare hands, and the giant python rolled violently among the grass, appearing panicked and disorganized. Zhang Yaoye yelled: "Come on, hurry up!" As he said, he took the lead and rushed towards the tumbling grass of the giant python. The excited nerves of Zhang Ziheng and a few stupid boys were also fully stimulated in a state of extreme shock, and they copied from all sides. Under the giant python's huge body, Master Tuo tightly clamped the throat of the giant python. No matter how the giant python rolled over in the grass, Master Tuo was like a leech attached to the python's body. At the same time Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng surrounded the giant python, its huge body flew towards the cow drinking pond. Master Zhang Yao yelled: "Oops!" As the voice fell, the giant python's blue-black body coiled and shot into the pond, splashing water one or two meters high with a bang. Master Tuo was also brought into the pond by the giant python, and his body fell into the twisted and coiled body of the giant python. Apparently, the giant python still couldn't break free from Master Tuo's grip, and it rolled more and more in the pond. For a while, the waves rolled and splashed in the pond, and the clear water in the pond suddenly became turbid. Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng were standing in the grass by the bank, all dumbfounded, they could only look helplessly at Tuo Shi who was fighting to the death with the giant python in the pond. After a while, the giant python had rolled to the center of the pond, and the water splash was getting bigger and bigger. Zhang Ziheng said in a trembling voice, "Master Yao, what should we do? What should we do?" At this time, Master Yao also looked dull.He looked helplessly at the boa constrictor rolling in the center of the pond, and knelt down with his knees straight.