After encountering a group of wild boars in the depths of the forest, the three of us became extremely cautious, and we didn't even dare to get off the car along the way, Yang Tao sat in the co-pilot throughout the whole process, checking the route with the map in my hand, and I drove the car, driving cautiously in the forest, the more we went into the forest, the more difficult the driving became, and occasionally you could see some animals such as roe deer, foxes, yellow sheep and so on the side of the road.

After more than two hours of hard driving in the forest, we finally came to a large plain, but the road conditions were still not good, there was sand and gravel everywhere, the path trantined by animals was also twisted, and the tires would sink into the sand from time to time.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, we finally arrived at the destination, our car stopped at the edge of a river, the river surface is about 20 meters wide, the river surface has not completely thawed, there are still large pieces of solid ice on the river surface, swept away by the waves, with the roar of unknown beasts in the distance and the mountain eagles hovering in the sky, quite a sense of magnificence of nature.

Yang Tao pushed the door and got out of the car, pointing to a beachhead in the distance: "Here, this is Gutou Bay!"

"Don't make trouble, there is not even a single person in this place, how can Brother Dong let us come here to pick up people!" I looked at the empty wilderness in front of me, and frowned at Yang Tao.

"I can't be mistaken, this is definitely our destination!" Yang Tao pointed to the map with a resolute gaze, and then raised his hand to point to the opposite peak: "Even if the landform will change, but this mountain will definitely not be able to run, the shape of the riverbed here and the surrounding mountains are absolutely consistent with the map, so the location must be right!"

Shi Yigang leaned over and looked at the map, and was also a little puzzled: "Brother Dong, what do you mean by this, there is not even a ghost in this place, where are we going to pick up people?"

"I'll give him a call and ask. At this time, I didn't understand what Dong Ge meant, so I took out my mobile phone and dialed his number, and after three seconds, I looked at the other two speechlessly: "There is no mobile phone signal here!"

"!" Shi Yigang heard this, grinning: "This is the end of the calf, the little food in our car, all JB has fed the wild boar, it doesn't matter if we can't catch someone, if we starve to death in this forest, it will be lively!"

"Don't worry, guarding such a large forest, we will definitely not starve to death!" Yang Tao smiled, and then looked at me: "It's just that spending the night in the primeval forest at night is too dangerous, whether we advance or retreat, you have to make an idea!"

"It took us so much effort to find this, we definitely can't retreat, let's keep walking, find a place with a mobile phone signal, I'll call Brother Dong first!" I thought about it for a while, and then decided to stay and find someone.

Yang Tao nodded and continued to look at the map: "Okay, then let's go to the twenty-eight station forest farm, the map indicates that there is a small village here, and the distance is not too far, let's go now, we can almost arrive before dark." ”

After a few of us finished discussing, we took out a spare oil drum in the trunk and filled the car with gas, and then began to continue driving, and after walking for about twenty minutes, Shi Yigang glanced outside, and suddenly stretched out his hand: "Hey, look, is that a house?"

"Where?" I looked in the direction that Shi Yigang pointed out, and on the hillside in front of us, there was really a wooden house surrounded by a fence, and on the chimney on the roof of the wooden house, there was still curling smoke: "It's really a house, most of them are local rangers' wooden houses, Xiao Tao, drive over and take a look!"

'Buzz!'

When Yang Tao heard this, he stepped on the accelerator, and then the Mitsubishi off-road vehicle relied on its strong performance to push away the snow and rush straight up the hill.

"Wang!

"Woo~Wang!"

As soon as our car arrived near the house, the two thin dogs in the yard howled incessantly, and then the door of the house was pushed open, and two middle-aged men walked out, who had been living in this cold place for many years, and their faces had left a lingering carmine, and they were all wearing the big black cotton jackets, and there were armbands on their arms that were 'forest rangers and fire prevention', and I guessed right, this was the ranger's house.

'Bang!'

Seeing people in this deep mountain and old forest, a few of us suddenly felt very cordial, and pushed the car door and went down.

"Hey, what are you doing!" Before we could speak, a ranger asked, then looked at our car: "This is a nature reserve, no tourists are allowed to enter it!"

"Big brother, we're here to find someone!" Shi Yigang grinned, took out his cigarette case and walked over: "Smoking!"

"No!" the other ranger refused, looking at us with a look of vigilance: "There is no one in this radius of more than ten miles, who are you looking for here?"

"Oh, you don't have to act like a thief, what else can you have in this house besides these two dogs!" Shi Yigang took out his cigarette with a big grin and handed it over again: "There is a cigarette pouch hanging on the waistband of your pants, why do you open your mouth and say that you can't smoke." ”

The two rangers blushed and took our cigarettes, but their eyes were still cautious.

I saw the vigilant look of the ranger, and I was also a little embarrassed: "Don't worry, we are really here to find someone, please ask, is there a place called Gutou Bay near here?"

A ranger nodded and pointed in the direction we came from: "Yes, the direction you came from, that wild beach is Gutou Bay!"

After listening to the ranger's words, I was completely speechless, because after we arrived at the place just now, Shi Yigang and I were sure that Yang Tao had found the wrong place, so it seems that the address given to us by Brother Dong is really wrong, I took out my mobile phone and looked at it, there was still no signal, and then I called up the text message sent to me by Brother Dong, and looked at the words 'Three gourds in the logging area of Gutouwan': "Then is there a place called the logging area?"

"If you want to say that, then the place will be big!" a forest ranger spat out a cigarette and smiled: "The Great Khing'an Mountains are so big, in order to ensure the survival rate of new trees, the Forestry Bureau will have an approval for thinning trees every year. ”

"It's troublesome now...... As soon as I heard that the place we were looking for was just a concept, I was a little anxious: "Is there a place called Sanhulu?"

The two rangers looked at each other and said in unison, "No." ”

"Okay, thank you then!" I decided to leave as soon as I heard them say this, because if you want to know the customs of the mountains all over the country, and the villages around the mountains, and all the surrounding corners, the local rangers are like a living map, if they don't even know a place, then they can't find it.

"Hey, boy!" I had barely taken two steps when a ranger stopped me, and I stopped and turned to look at him.

"The three gourds you are looking for are not people, there is a person on our side, it is called three gourds! And it is the workers in the logging area!"

"Yes! It's him!" I heard the ranger say this, and I immediately figured out that the message sent by Dong Ge should be 'Gutou Bay Logging Area, Three Gourds', just because of the lack of a comma, I subconsciously connected together as a place name.

", you've been looking for him for half a day!" When the two rangers heard that we were looking for the three gourds, they instantly relaxed, and they lost their hostility towards us.

I also laughed: "Big brother, do you know each other?"

The ranger nodded: "In a poor and remote country like ours, within a radius of dozens of miles, there are only a few people, who don't know anyone!"

"Do you know where this person is now?"

"They were still logging here half a month ago, and now they should be going to Handaokou, not far from here, you can find it by walking north along the river!" After the ranger pointed the way, he looked at our car and was amazed: "I really didn't expect that people like Sangourd still have friends like you in the city!"

When I heard the ranger say this, I was a little curious: "What do you mean by that?"

"Haha, it's nothing, it's just that a few years ago, Sanhulu left the mountains and went outside for a few years, and when he came back, he told us that he was doing well in the city, and everyone thought he was bragging B!"

"What kind of person is this three gourds?"

"What else could it be, ordinary people!"

Shi Yigang also interjected: "Then why is he called Sangourd?"

"This is a long story, three gourds his father's surname is Kong, is an old hunter, in the early years by hunting for a living, but also our area, the only hunter who can single-handedly hunt Siberian tigers, and later liberated, the country does not allow illegal hunting, the government arranged for him to make a living as a forest guard, we are cold here, so he is good at drinking, and good at drinking spirits, because there is always a wine gourd pinned to the waist, others call him Kong Hulu, and then he gave birth to three sons, others also according to his father's name, call them big gourd, two gourd, Three gourds, slowly called around, everyone is used to it, if you asked his real name just now, I really don't know!"

"Then do you know where their family lives?" I heard that Sangourd had a family, so I asked, planning to ask his family if I couldn't find Sangourd in the logging area of Handaokou.

"He has no family, and the old Kong family is left with the three gourds themselves!" Another ranger sighed: "Kong Hulu was drunk a few years ago, went out to pee at night, and after urinating, he lay down in the snow and slept and froze to death!"

"Frozen to death?!" Shi Yigang was suddenly stunned: "This old man is quite a tiger!"

I glanced at Shi Yigang, motioned him not to talk nonsense, and then continued to ask, "What about the two elder brothers of the three gourds?"

"The big gourd follows his father, and he also likes to drink, and once he drank and made a bet with someone, saying that he inherited the mantle of his father's hunter, and went up the mountain with a kitchen knife, saying that he was going to hunt a black bear and come back, and then it seems that he really met a bear, right?" said the ranger, and asked his companion.

"Yes!" the other nodded: "The big gourd met a black bear, and the bear was killed by the bear, and there was only one leg left to eat." ”

"What about the two gourds?"

"Erhulu died when he was nine years old, and he went to play on the Emur River with the children of the same village, and competed with him to tie the fierce son, and after he went down, he won a championship!"

"Hmm!" the ranger's companion replied again: "It's been more than 20 years, and they haven't caught it yet!

"Fuck you, this family, why do you feel so tiger-like?" Shi Yigang looked at me with twitching corners of his eyes after listening to the deeds of the Kong family.

The ranger nodded: "The people of the old Kong family are legends on our side, and the nearby villagers all know about their family, saying that their family is full of loyalty!"

When the words fell, his companion spoke again: "JB Mao, that's not what you said at all, others say that their family is a tiger clan!"