Jiang Er stayed on the stone mountain for one night, and except for the two wolf howls that he occasionally heard at night, there was no other movement, and he was safe. I didn't hear the laughter in Jia Bangguo's mouth, nor did I hear the sound of jumping feet on the roof, and even the howling of the wind in the mountains in the spring season had stopped. After dawn, Jia Bangguo stretched his waist, yawned and got up, shouted at the workers to come in and make a fire, and joked with Jiang Er, who had already woken up and was ready to wash, and said: "Erxing, it's strange, you are here, the mountain is much quieter, and the mountain spirits and ghosts don't dare to come out to make trouble? ”

Jiang Er actually didn't have a good rest last night, changed the unfamiliar terrain and fell asleep (insomnia), couldn't sleep well, just washed his face with cold water, sober and sober, originally the stove in Jia Bangguo's house was all bright burning, but Jiang Er settled down yesterday and let the stove go out naturally, so in the morning the house was still a little cold, the cold water was so excited on the face, there was no sleepiness, and he picked up Jia Bangguo's words and said: "Don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night, let's make a decent living, even if it's really a mountain spirit ghost, don't be afraid, haha." Jia Bangguo also said: "Yes, yes." At this time, the workers who made the stove fire came in, and Jia Bangguo didn't even wash his face, and took Jiang Er and Er Lin to the makeshift kitchen shack to drink porridge.

Jiang Er finished breakfast, there was heat on his body, and Jia Bangguo said that he had something to deal with, he needed to go down the mountain, and waited for the afternoon or evening to come back, Jia Bangguo hurriedly greeted Xiao Liu, who was driving, and sent Jiang Er down the mountain, Jiang Er got out of the car when he arrived at the entrance of Stone Village, and made up a reason, let Xiao Liu, who was driving, go back to Stone Mountain, and take Erlin to the address that Xiao Liu said yesterday, and even inquired and asked to find the little man surnamed Zhao.

This little man's home is actually easy to find, when he looks at the street door on the terrain, Jiang Er has a sense of intimacy, the courtyard wall of the soil embryo has a gap larger than Jiang Er's yard, and what is even more unsatisfactory than Jiang Er is that there is not even a street door, only the door frame is left. There is no need to knock on the door to call someone, Jiang Er stood in the courtyard and shouted: "Is Master Zhao at home?" "Is Master Zhao at home?" On both sides of the shout, someone in the room answered, shouting: "Who?" Then he opened the half-sliding door, poked his head out to look, and saw a fresh face in the courtyard, and closed the door again. Jiang Er was still puzzled, why didn't he say hello, so he closed the door again, so he shouted again: "Master Zhao, I have something to do with you." This time I didn't shout the second time, the door opened, a forty-five or sixteen-year-old middle-aged Chinese character, still wearing yesterday's labor coat, with a pair of leather gloves, sloppy look, opened the door, said with a displeased face: "Early in the morning, what's the matter, noisy?"

Jiang Er hurriedly pressed his left hand with his right hand, and the thumbs of both hands were exposed, but he didn't it, he always followed the front, hugged his fist and said, "Oh, Ne and Master Zhao have some questions." ”

The little man held up his hand with leather gloves and waved it and said, "What Master Zhao, it's called Zhao Daxiong." Say something quickly. After speaking, he leaned on the door, lazily with a pestle, and did not let Jiang Er enter the house.

Jiang Er saw that the other party didn't return the salute, and knew in his heart that this thing was not a person on the road, so he put his heart at ease, and pondered, why did Zhao Daxiong wear double leather gloves at home, not afraid of covering his sweat, a big man, and called a big bear, laughing to death, but he had to continue respectfully on his face: "Oh, I came down from the stone mountain, isn't it, I heard that Master Zhao can help drive away the mountain spirit of the stone mountain, and I came to visit Master Zhao." ”

When Zhao Daxiong heard this, he hurriedly got up, pulled his clothes a few times with his hand, and straightened out the collar that had not been turned out, and then said seriously: "Oh, on the stone mountain? You are the shopkeeper? What about the person surnamed Jia yesterday?"

Jiang Er said: "Oh, Lao Jia is in charge of the project, he is in charge of the accounts, he was not there yesterday, and he only heard about it at night, so he came early in the morning to find Master Zhao and inquire about the situation." ”

When Zhao Daxiong heard this, he suddenly realized the feeling, went out of the door, moved aside, and asked Jiang Er to say, "Let's talk about it in the house." ”

Jiang Er heard this, and said pretendedly: "Alas, Master Zhao, wait, let the driver waiting outside go back to the mountain first, and save them from worrying." As he spoke, he asked Erlin to stay, pretended to go out of the street, and shouted: "Xiao Liu, you go back first, and talk to Master Zhao about something." After shouting, without waiting for a reply from outside, he led Erlin into Zhao Daxiong's house, and Zhao Daxiong didn't think much about it, and followed into the house.

Jiang Er entered Zhao Daxiong's house, and first smelled a smell of singles with a bad nose, the smell of sweat glands and not bathing all year round, mixed with the smell of filling the house, the house was dilapidated, Zhao Daxiong began to pack up the tattered bedding that had just risen, vacated a piece of land, and let Jiang Er sit down. Jiang Er took the opportunity to step aside, sat down, and couldn't help but think of Jiang Er's small black house in Dalin, Jiang Er held his breath twice, slowly adapted to the smell in the house, and said to Zhao Daxiong: "Master Zhao, Ne surnamed Jiang, you and Ne tell me what is going on with this stone mountain? ”

Zhao Daxiong, sitting on the kang, staring at Erlin on the ground, with a tiger's brain, a hairstyle, didn't say a word, feeling like a professional bodyguard, thinking that the master in front of him was more imposing than the contractor foreman he saw yesterday, and looked at Jiang Er differently, and said: "Oh, it's Boss Jiang, you guys are not easy to deal with, I guess it was you who opened the mountain and alarmed the mountain god, so the mountain god sent the mountain spirit to make a fool." ”

Jiang Er heard this, and said in surprise: "But on the day of the start of construction, I invited Mr. Erzhai from Yunshan County, and they set up an altar with the Master Hongzhi on the Stone Mountain, and specially worshiped the mountain god." How can you still make such a disaster?"

Zhao Daxiong took gloves and moved the dust accumulated on the windowsill, and said: "One of them is a second house, the other is a second monk, and they are not a great immortal. ”

Jiang Er sighed, and continued: "You believe it, but the price you ask for is too high, can it be cheaper, it's not easy for you to get a project, and you can't make a few." ”

Zhao Daxiong he, "Two thousand yuan, not a single point less." ”

Jiang Er had already calculated in his heart that the matter of the mountain spirit and the dragon had something to do with this Zhao Daxiong, and he already had a plan to leave in his heart, so he said to Zhao Daxiong under the pretext: "Master Zhao, you see that you have no room for negotiation at this point, otherwise you will find someone else to ask, there is no way, it is not easy to make money." As he spoke, he got up and left.

Zhao Daxiong said confidently: "Go, go, where is the mountain spirit so easy to catch, who do you like to find, and then I don't want to ask you!"

Jiang Er didn't say anything after hearing this, led Erlin out of Zhao Daxiong's house, walked towards the courtyard, and vaguely heard Zhao Daxiong in the house scolding and scolding.

Jiang Er relied on the ability to observe the words and emotions of Jin, and had already seen that the mountain spirit was Zhao Daxiong who was making trouble, but he didn't know the details of Zhao Daxiong, so he boldly exposed it, in case the sloppy Zhao Daxiong had other skills, he was afraid that he would cause trouble for Jia Bangguo innocently, so it was better to leave first, find someone to inquire, and probe the details of this Zhao Daxiong, and then make plans, out of Zhao Daxiong's courtyard, and not go far, looking for villagers nearby and starting to inquire, there was an old man not far ahead, Jiang Er chased after him, and asked busily: " Uncle, wait a minute, do you want to inquire about someone?"

The old man heard someone shouting, stopped, and asked Jiang Er, "What are you doing?"

Jiang Er said: "Uncle, do you know where Zhao Daxiong's family is? ”

When the old man heard this, he pointed in the direction of Zhao Daxiong's house and said, "Oh, looking for Seven Fingers?" ”

Jiang Er hurriedly said, "Oh, thank you, uncle." He pretended to remember something again and said, "Hey, uncle, isn't his name Zhao Daxiong? Why do you call him Qizi'er?"

The uncle was also afraid of falling into a suspicious situation, so he asked, "Who are you? I don't know why he is called Seven Fingers?"

Jiang Er hurriedly made up a lie and said, "Oh, it's my friend who came to do something, looking for him to do something, and I haven't met yet." Why is he called the seventh son?

The uncle smiled hehe, and he was not afraid of complaining and explained: "That person (a derogatory term for someone who has no ability) plays tricks on a money stall (out of a thousand people), and was caught, and he cut off three fingers in a row, and there are only seven fingers left, so people gave him the nickname of Seven Fingers." ”

When Jiang Er heard this, he suddenly realized, no wonder he was wearing leather gloves, and said to the old man: "Oh, it turned out to be seven fingers, I thought there were seven brothers in the family, uncle, listening to you say this, does you think it's not safe to do things with him?"

When the old man heard this, he shook his head incessantly, did not speak, waved his hands and walked forward, afraid of saying too much and saying the wrong thing. Jiang Er didn't ask, turned around again, looked for a second boss (middle-aged woman), made up a lie, inquired about Zhao Daxiong's social relations, so three times, inquired that Zhao Daxiong can only be regarded as a second-rate person in society, in the early years, he went out of the house, learned the craft of playing money, and won a lot of money in the money stall after coming back, and later played money with the oilers in the society, was caught and chopped off a finger, but this goods were not angry, and continued to play skills, as a result, three fingers were chopped off in a row, only seven fingers remained, and he wore a pair of leather gloves to cover his shame when he went out. Now it's a lot of goods that can't beat the crowd, and I don't care about how many acres of land I have, and I heard that I have borrowed money from the red (usury), and now I am eating and drinking at home and waiting for death.

After some inquiry, Jiang Er knew the details of Zhao Daxiong, thinking that he could expose Zhao Daxiong's tricks at any time, but after all, he and Jia Bangguo belonged to outsiders, and they were not afraid of no good things, but they were afraid that there were no good people, and villains were the most difficult to prevent.......