Returning to my hometown to inherit three mountains: Don't stop me from raising pigs

Chapter 260 Flying Tiger Rope Cutting

“Is this story true or false?”

Qi Tianming looked at the villagers of Yaling Village next to him with a somewhat horrified expression and asked.

"What on earth is this man in red? What happened next?"

Gu Chang also asked curiously.

"At this time, the people below hurriedly shouted to the people on the cliff." The villager continued,

"The people on the mountain rushed over to take a look, only to see a big red butterfly flying on the rope, biting it frantically! At this time, the knot had been bitten off by two-thirds!"

"The ear picker under the cliff is on the verge of death and is about to fall off the cliff!"

"The man on the mountain immediately grabbed a branch and knocked the big red butterfly down in time, saving his life!"

"What exactly is this red butterfly? Is it so scary?" Qi Tianming said in shock.

“Is this thing real or fake?”

"The older generation calls this kind of thing 'Flying Tiger Cutting the Rope'!"

"Flying Tiger Rope Cutters? What is this?" Gu Chang asked immediately.

"Some people say that this flying tiger refers to this special big red butterfly, while others say it is a strange big red spider. No one can tell whether it is a spider or a butterfly.

"I only know that this creature is an expert at chewing ropes because it particularly likes to eat ramie!"

"It is said that it can chew through a 50mm diameter hemp rope within ten minutes. If you encounter it, you will die!"

"So, the old generation used to spread the rumor that stone ear must be dug in groups of two, one person carries the rope down the mountain, and the other stays on the mountain to prevent this flying tiger from cutting the rope!"

"Damn, is this true?" Qi Tianming's face was full of doubt.

"Big red butterfly, I think of a kind of butterfly." Gu Chang suddenly said.

"What butterfly?" Qi Tianming asked immediately.

Everyone looked over. Is there really such a butterfly?

"Curved Spider Butterfly!" said Gu Chang.

"What is this?" Qi Tianming was shocked!

"The spider butterfly is a type of butterfly. The back of its wings is yellow-brown or reddish-brown, and the veins are irregular horizontal lines that form a spider web-like pattern. From a distance, it looks like a big spider lying on a spider web!"

"Moreover, the main food of the larvae of the spider butterfly is ramie."

"Our area happens to be the habitat of the spider butterfly!"

"Is that so? But it's just an ordinary butterfly, how could it possibly chew through the rope?" Qi Tianming asked curiously.

"That's right! It shouldn't be like this!"

Gu Chang thought for a moment and said, "It may be that when the ear pickers went down the mountain to collect stone ears, the rope they used was about to break, and a spider butterfly happened to land on the rope."

"Plant larvae like to eat ramie, so people think that this butterfly also likes to eat ramie. Over time, this legend has been formed."

Everyone lowered their heads and thought.

Although Gu Chang's statement has many loopholes and unreasonable points.

But it makes people feel that this might really be true!

"Your statement that the rope was worn out is actually possible." Shen Long said after thinking for a while.

"I heard from my father that in the past, the ropes were wrapped around trees and rocks, and at that time, we often encountered flying tigers cutting the ropes!"

“Villagers often fall off cliffs and die!”

"Later, some villagers tied the rope to the thatched bag and twisted it regularly many times. The villagers called this method the 'Maoshan method'!"

"Since the implementation of the Maoshan Law, we rarely hear about the Flying Tiger Rope Cutting incidents!"

Gu Chang thought for a moment and said, "I think it's probably because the thatch has a well-developed root system, making it difficult to pull out and not easy to rub against the rope."

"If you tie it to a tree branch, the branch will break easily, and the constant friction will cause the rope to wear out easily."

"Don't tell me, what you said is really possible!"

Qi Tianming's eyes widened. He was actually one step ahead of Gu Chang. In fact, he had almost figured it out!

Many taboos passed down by people in the mountains are largely feudal superstitions, some are false legends, but another part is the survival experience summed up by the people in the mountains in the past.

They couldn't understand why this happened, so they gave it strange legends and taboos and passed it down by word of mouth!

When Flying Tiger was cutting the rope, it was most likely that the rope was worn out by the rocks!

"To be honest, collecting stone ears is really not an easy task!" Qi Tianming sighed.

“There are so many taboos to follow!”

"The older generation is more particular about these taboos and follows them strictly."

Shen Long on the side smiled and said.

"However, no one believes in this now. Many taboos are just talk, and no one really follows them."

"After all, we cannot become spirits after the founding of the People's Republic of China. How can these taboos compare to the glory of our socialism..." Qi Tianming joked.

"The light of science purifies all monsters and demons!"