Chapter 80: The Frozen Dead
Xiao Hu fell into curiosity again, "Why?" The driver said mysteriously: "Because! Everyone who works over there has their own car, and those who don't work there are all in J City, which is only a dozen kilometers away from J City." ”
"I see. "I thought there was something terrible, but it turned out that it was just because of the location.
When we found his house at the address given by the owner of the hotel, his son was playing with other children in the town, saying that he was playing, that is, someone else was riding a big horse, and he was the horse. I saw him wearing particularly ill-fitting clothes, his face was dirty, and the shoes on his feet were frayed.
Xiaohu scolded the children who were watching, went up to pick up the children on his body, and helped him up.
"Why are you bullying him?"
"He's a wild kid with no father and no mother, and we can bully him if we want. The children grimaced and ran away.
Xiaoyu patted the dirt on the child's body and wiped his cat-like face with a wet towel, "What's your name?"
"Gao Bao. ”
Gao Bao led us into his house, and as soon as he entered the door, he shouted, "Grandma, there is a guest at home." ”
His grandmother came out with a cane, "Where did you go crazy again?"
Xiao Hu walked up to the old man with a cardboard box, "This is the medicine that your son asked us to get for you." ”
The old man beat the cardboard box away with a stick, "I'm not sick, I don't take medicine, let that little rabbit come back, what has become of the family?" ”
Xiaoyu picked up the cardboard box on the ground and handed it to Gao Bao, "You bring it into the house for grandma." Gao Bao didn't seem to care about being bullied just now, and happily entered the house with a cardboard box.
Gao Bao's grandmother looked at us, "You guys don't look like us here, what are you doing here?"
"Have you heard of Wuyingdian?"
Gao Bao's grandmother held the door frame tightly, "What did you say?" The drooping eyelids instantly lifted, and her eyes shone as if she had heard something great.
"Wu Yingdian, have you heard of it? Xiao Yu repeated loudly before walking in.
Gao Bao's grandmother hit Xiaoyu with a stick, "My old woman is not deaf and can hear." Why are you asking this?"
"It seems that you know, I want to ask if this Wuying Hall is a place name, a building name, or an organization name?" I was eager to know what this mysterious master of the underworld wanted me to do.
"I ask you what the hell are you going to do, and who told you about Wuyingdian?" the old lady became more and more excited, and the crutch in her hand kept beating on the ground.
"A dead man told me, he only mentioned the Junyi Mountain Wuying Palace, and didn't say anything else, if you know anything, just tell us, he has something to ask me. "Isn't the underworld all dead?
The old lady looked up at the sky, "I know, my ancestor gave me a dream last night, if someone comes to ask Wuyingdian today, I must take him there." With that, she called out her grandson.
"Then how are we going to get there, are we far from here?" asked Xiao Yu the question I had always wanted to ask.
We went out in a walk-behind tractor, it seems that we still underestimate the old lady, don't look at the usual old lady with a crutch, look at the legs and feet are not good, and drive the walk-behind tractor is also very stylish, Xiaoyu fell into a deep worship.
The tractor left the town and turned into a path that looked very unruly, and I looked at the steep cliffs on both sides, "How is this place the same as before?" the old lady smiled, "I grew up here, and when I was a child, I went over the mountains and mountains to collect herbs, and I have never seen you in the past two years. ”
The tractor drove over this section, and inside was an uphill road, full of small yellow pebbles. The old lady parked the tractor and picked up her crutches, "Now I can only climb up on two legs." Gao Bao sensibly pestered the old lady.
Xiao Yu looked up at the huge sun, "It's noon, why don't we climb before we eat?" The old lady didn't ask for it, "Come to my territory, can you still make you hungry?"
I returned the self-heating rations to Xiaohu, I persuaded him to throw it away several times, and he kept it like a baby, and I really wanted to take him back to eat it and come back again.
We followed the old lady step by step upward, and halfway up the mountain there were already small pine trees, and the higher we went, the denser the trees became.
"Alright, here we are. ”
The old lady stopped and asked Xiaohu to open the trap buried in the ground, "There are actually four rabbits in it." The old lady turned her head to look at Xiao Yu, "Little girl, do you eat meat?" Xiao Yu nodded, "Eat! what's wrong?" The old lady touched Gao Bao's head, "Good boy, you go and deal with these rabbits." Then he said to the three of us, "Just wait." ”
I saw Gao Bao take out a bright little dagger from his body, grab a rabbit's ear, peel it, clean the internal organs, and do it in one go. The four rabbits were quickly finished, and Gao Bao took a thicker branch and inserted it into the rabbit's mouth, then lit a fire, and roasted it there. And he actually has salt and chili noodles in his little pocket.
After a while, the aroma of roast rabbit meat wafted everywhere, and Xiaohu swallowed his saliva. I patted him on the shoulder, "How can this be better than your broken dry food, right?" Xiaohu nodded, staring intently at the rabbit in Gao Bao's hand, as if the rabbit could come back to life and run away on its own if he didn't stare for a while.
Looking at the charred rabbit meat in his hand, "Gao Bao, do you often eat handcuffed rabbit meat?" Gao Bao nodded, "Yes, because the meat in the vegetable market is too expensive, I will go up the mountain to bury traps, catch rabbits, and then exchange rabbit skins for money to buy hand cream for grandma." ”
"Hand cream?"
The three of us stared at the old lady's hand in unison, the old lady was looked at, and waved her crutch twice, "Eat your meat, see what I do? Don't you know that a woman's hands are more important than her face?" We hurriedly lowered our heads and ate the meat, and Xiao Yu couldn't help laughing.
After eating the meat, Gao Bao took us to the river to wash our hands, the river was crystal clear, Xiaoyu couldn't help but hold it with both hands and take a sip, "This water is so sweet!" Xiao Hu reminded her, "The water in the wild is not clean, be careful of parasites." ”
"What kind of parasite, I grew up drinking, didn't I live to be more than sixty years old?" said the old lady and rolled her eyes, "You city people are hypocritical." ”
Xiaoyu gave Xiaohu a look, as if to say: Yes, let you talk nonsense.
"It's a pity that such a beautiful view has not been developed into a tourist area. ”
"The people in the town and the surrounding villages aren't going to let this become the tourist area you say it is. ”
"Why?"
"For no reason, it's time for us to go. ”
We continued to walk with the old lady, and for about half an hour, the side of the hill became a small plain, and the road became easier to walk. As we walked down the tree-lined path, a huge mountain gate appeared in front of us, with a statue on each side of the gate, like King Kong in the temple, glaring at us. The walls next to the gate had collapsed, and only the gate was still standing alone.
The old lady bowed to the two statues, then turned to us and said, "This is the Wuying Hall." Saying that, he led us up the steps, although I didn't know why she didn't go directly through the collapsed walls on both sides, and I didn't ask, nor did Xiaohu and Xiaoyu.
Pushing open the gate, there is a square, and the ground is covered with gray floor tiles, and because of the age, the grass under the bricks has grown very tall. In the middle of the floor tiles stands a stone tablet, more than three meters high, engraved with three big characters: Wuying Palace.
"What was this used to do?"
"It's a long time ago, more than 2,000 years old, there was nothing here at that time, and then a hero came here. He was originally waiting to round out with his general, but he didn't expect to be waiting for the enemy's crazy encirclement and suppression. They fought bloodily for seven days and seven nights, and when they were about to run out of ammunition and food, a huge thunder fell from the sky, cutting the cliff when we entered, giving them a chance to breathe. ”
When the old lady had finished speaking, she continued her way inside, and when she came to the main hall, she stopped, "So they set up camp here and built the wall, until when the enemy had finished moving the rubble and opened the passage, an impregnable tower had been built here. So the enemy abandoned the place and retreated. ”
There is a huge portrait in the main hall, which has turned yellow and damp because of the age, and it is difficult to see the face.
"This is the first hall marshal of the Wuying Palace. ”
"And then?"
Xiaoyu was already fascinated by what she heard.
"Later, when their country was defeated, they refused to surrender, so they occupied the place until one day they could return again. In this way, two thousand years passed, during which various warlord forces were fought, but in the end, Wuyingdian still declined, and the people of Wuyingdian went to live around. ”
The old lady looked at us, "I also brought the place, now you can tell me the purpose of your visit, right?"
Xiao Hu and Xiao Yu looked at me and said I didn't know either.
"Where's Gao Bao?"
We patronized and chatted, and none of us found out, and Gao Bao didn't know where to go.
"It doesn't matter, he grew up here, and he can't lose it. ”
"Can we take a look around?"
"Whatever you want, but it's not getting early, if you don't want to spend the night in a place like this, go down early!"
The master of the underworld must have his purpose for me to come, but how do you look at it here, it is the kind of cottage in the past, what treasure can not be?
The old lady was waiting in the main hall, and we looked around.
I came to the apse, which was supposed to be something like a conference room, with a huge wooden table in the middle, lined with wooden chairs, some of which had been eaten by termites.
I continued to walk inside, it should be the living room, it seems, this is the room where the first person in charge here, the palace marshal lives. There was almost nothing, and I patted the bed, and it felt like it was empty, maybe something. I slapped it violently, but I didn't grasp the strength well, and the bed surface was directly shattered.
I saw the tunnel inside, and I jumped into it without thinking about it, it was dark inside, but I could see it, so I didn't take it seriously. The further you go inside, the colder it gets, and after walking a distance of seven or eight meters, the bricks on both sides are frosty, and if you go further inside, you will follow up like an ice cave.
The end of the tunnel was completely sealed with a piece of ice, and when I kicked it open, the ice shards shattered like glass. I went inside, and inside was a Tai Chi pattern, with a huge ice cube in the middle of the pattern, a person in it, and three swords in the back.
When I walked into the Taiji diagram, the whole diagram turned around, and the yin and yang fish jumped back and forth, cold for a while, hot for a while. I walked up to the ice, and this man was very familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it.
"You're here?"