Chapter 207: The Mountain
100,000 mountains, as expected, live up to its name.
When the car drove into Guizhou Province along the highway at the foot of Wuling Mountain, looking at the endless mountains outside the car window, Tao Mengchu really understood why Guizhou has "eight mountains, one water and one field". The almost endless mountain range brought him not only a shock but also a headache at this time, and the first thing he thought of was how to find a person to hide in these 100,000 mountains.
Gu Yaopan had been to Guizhou when he had gone out with Wang Ju before, and he was not too shocked to see this endless mountain range, but he couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the purpose of his coming here, and touched the silk rope on his hand.
The car drove into the county seat, Gu Yaopan glanced at the string on her wrist, the two small jade beads were still pointing in the direction of the south, and her eyebrows couldn't help frowning slightly.
Further south?
"It's getting late, let's find a place to rest. ”
Tao Mengchu looked at the street in front of him, which was not too wide, slammed the steering wheel, and turned into a hotel that looked well-decorated.
Gu Yaopan didn't object, no matter how anxious it was, it was not a good idea to set off at night, they had already missed several nightstays along the way, and it was time to take a good rest.
As soon as the two checked in, Tao Mengchu's mobile phone rang with the sound of QQ, and followed the waiter all the way into the room, Tao Mengchu only glanced at the display on the mobile phone and politely sent the waiter away and closed the door.
Gu Yaopan turned her head to look at him, and saw Tao Mengchu raise the mobile phone in her hand towards her.
"What's the matter?"
"Rong sent a message to ask where we were, saying that if we arrived in Guizhou, we would stay for a while, and the person in charge here would ask for help. ”
Tao Mengchu explained while replying to a message on his phone.
Gu Yaopan flipped through his mobile phone, but he didn't see any news, so he simply put the phone away and went to pack up the things he brought out.
"Where's your thunder talisman?" Thinking of the thunder talisman that Tao Mengchu had sealed that day, Gu Yaopan suddenly asked.
"Oh, I'll take it. Tao Mengchu patted his most intimate chest pocket.
"Don't tell too many people about this thunder talisman, your wealth will not be exposed. Gu Yaopan thought about it and reminded him.
"Well, I understand, I only told my dad. Tao Mengchu nodded.
Thinking of that shrewd old guy, Gu Yaopan nodded, and asked instead, "Did Rong Wengui say what happened?"
Tao Mengchu shook his head: "He didn't say it, he seemed to be very busy, he just gave me a phone call and asked me to contact that person when I arrived in Guizhou Province." ”
Hearing Tao Mengchu's words, Gu Yaopan's subordinates paused slightly in packing up their clothes, and when they entered Guizhou Province, she felt a little subtle in her heart, could it be a coincidence?
"Then you contact first, I'll take a shower, I've been buried in sand for the past few days. Gu Yaopan didn't care about Tao Mengchu, and walked straight into the bathroom.
When the two of them had washed all their bodies, and were about to go out, the doorbell outside the door rang.
When I opened the door, I saw that a middle-aged man covered in dust was standing at the door of the room, looking at the two of them from head to toe with some scrutiny, and finally stretched out his hand.
"Hello! I am the person in charge of the Guizhou Office of the Special Affairs Department, and my name is Kunyu. ”
The middle-aged man's expression was very calm, but the slightly chapped lip lines on his lips still revealed some of his anxiety, and his gray hair did not look very comfortable, so it could be seen that he was in a hurry.
"Miao people?" Gu Yaopan stretched out his hand and shook it lightly with him, but he asked a question.
Kunyu was slightly stunned, and then nodded. Although Gu Yaopan asked directly, he could hear that there was no malice in her words, and there was no need for him to deny it.
"Let's go! Let's go down and eat and talk, we've been on the road for the past few days, and we're starving. Tao Mengchu closed the door and walked in front first.
The three of them asked for a small private room in the hotel restaurant, and asked the waiter to serve a few local specialties of Guizhou, but did not ask for wine. After eating for seven minutes and drinking two sips of tea, he slowly began to talk about business.
Kunyu's spirit after eating also seemed to be much better, and when he first opened the door, Tao Mengchu thought that he had met a backpacker who had been on the road for several days like them.
"Both of them are like-minded people, so I'll get straight to the point. Kunyu held the teacup and said straight to the point, but he still paused, as if organizing the language.
"You just say, it's okay. Tao Mengchu was holding the dish without a chopstick, while waiting for Kunyu to speak.
"In addition to being the person in charge of Guizhou Province, I am also the head of Miao Lingsheng Miao Village, and recently there has been a large number of animal deaths around our village, and recently it has also developed to livestock and people, and we have also spent a lot of energy to investigate, but we have not found out the cause of death. ”
Kunyu said this, but his body shivered involuntarily, and the expression on his face became a little strange.
Tao Mengchu's action of picking up vegetables paused, and his eyes looked at Kun Yu with a hint of scrutiny, and after a while, he said, "Are you a seedling?"
Kun Yu looked directly into Tao Mengchu's eyes and nodded.
Looking at his movements, Tao Mengchu's brows furrowed, Gu Yaopan's face was also a little heavy, and both of them had some bad premonitions.
It's no wonder that the two of them have ugly faces. In modern times, although the Miao people still retain some ancient customs, they have been divided into two different ethnic groups, and the contact with the outside world is more of a part of the Han or other ethnic groups that are mixed with the Han or other ethnic groups, and the Shengmiao, which is a stubborn ethnic group that has inherited the blood of the Jiuli people from generation to generation and never mixed with other people.
This group has still retained the custom of raising Gu, and the leader of the clan is called the head man, and the most prestigious person in the clan is the old witch in the clan, generally this position is a inheritance system, and the person who can inherit the title of the old witch must be the elder of the clan who is proficient in Zhu Youshu.
No wonder this Kun Yu looked weird at first, it turned out to be the head of Sheng Miao, presumably he was not used to wearing ordinary people's clothes, so when he first saw him, that outfit made Tao Mengchu and the others feel particularly embarrassed and strange.
"You are the descendants of Jiuli, can't even you find out the reason?" Tao Mengchu said.
Kun Yu shook his head, the teacup in his hand had already been put down, and there was a pale golden light inadvertently flashing between his cuffs, looking at Tao Mengchu and the two of them with a wry smile on their faces:
"If there is a way, I will not ask Director Rong for help, don't hide it from the two, the old witch in the clan has folded the natal Gu that he has raised for many years in order to investigate this matter, and now he is dying, the new witch is too young to serve the public, and the people in the village are about to panic. ”
Gu Yaopan looked at Kun Yu with a bitter expression, stretched out his hand and pointed to his sleeve and said, "Is there something wrong with your Gu too?"