C22 (2/2)

It's not what you think, he said. I'll tell you when I'm done.

At that time, the guest had come to this village on the request of the Taoist Wang, to conduct a funeral for the dead Aunt Zhang.

This Aunt Zhang died in a suspicious way, so she had to start from the beginning.

Taoist Wang and his village had an ancient thousand-year-old tree. Its trunk was so thick that probably only ten people could carry it. Its branches and leaves were abnormally lush and the tree was so tall that it seemed to rush into the clouds.

It was a ginkgo tree. Its shade covered a radius of about 50 meters. One could imagine how big it was.

No one knew exactly how old this tree was. None of the generations in their village could give a definite answer, so those people called it the thousand-year-old ginkgo tree.

The Ginkgo tree was the incarnation of legend and mystery in their village. On top of the tree were some ”Mt. Tai's Stone Dare”, some red silk cloths and some other things. As for what they were for, Taoist Wang did not know, he could only guess that they might be used to suppress some sort of treasure.

One day, when everyone was enjoying the cool under a tree, Aunt Zhang came rushing over with a basket Luo, a ladder, and a long bamboo pole under her arm. No one knew what she was up to, so everyone quickly made way for her.

After that, she found out that Aunt Zhang wanted to climb trees and fight gingko. These people didn't let her go, but she didn't care about that, she didn't listen to their advice.

The villagers all knew that the ancient trees had become spiritual and that they could not be casually attacked. There were many explanations here.

Every autumn, many people would come to the village to pick up the ginkgo leaf and white fruit. These things were all medicinal herbs and the price was quite good, so many people would pick their own leaves to sell.

Every year, a large amount of leaves would fall from this thousand-year-old ginkgo tree, and the villagers would wait for these leaves to fall off before they collected and sold them. The reason was very simple, that tree was too old, its trunk looked very thick, but it might already be empty.

This was the first reason. The second reason was that no one dared to offend the thousand year old tree.

But this Aunt Zhang didn't believe in evil, for the sake of the twenty cents, she had to go up the tree and beat the leaves.

Everyone had invited Taoist Wang over, wanting him to advise them against it. However, Taoist Wang was full of rogues! He had a plan in his mind, and wished that something would happen to the Aunt Zhang and he could take this opportunity to beat her up.

But on the surface, he said that the Aunt Zhang had a bold temper and was even more stubborn than the old masters.

Just as they were speaking, Aunt Zhang had already put down his own ladder, and climbed up the ladder with Leaves' pole.

Everyone was reminding him with good intentions, but Aunt Zhang was very tough, his words were hurtful, so there was nothing everyone could do, they just went their own business, some of them just sat under the tree watching the show.

The Aunt Zhang was probably muttering in her heart, so she didn't dare to climb too high, only 3-4 meters above the ground. The tree trunk that she stepped on was also very thick, perhaps it was for safety's sake.

After Aunt Zhang stood firmly on the tree, she started to dance the tree trunk in her hands and hit the leaves, some of the the branches were directly chopped off by her.

Just as everyone was staring at Aunt Zhang's domineering action, something happened. 'Kacha!' The tree trunk that Aunt Zhang stepped on suddenly broke. That tree trunk was even thicker than the waist of an adult.

With a 'bang', Aunt Zhang fell to the ground together with the broken tree trunk, stirring up a thick layer of dust.

This time, the fall definitely was not light, the Aunt Zhang cried in pain.

A few people rushed to help her, but they couldn't get up.

When everyone's attention was focused on Aunt Zhang, a young lad suddenly cried out in alarm. Blood, the tree is bleeding!