Shang Yiming is not a guy who likes to fool people, at least Li Wei has not seen him fool anyone. But this time, he was curled up in the bus leading to the suburbs for almost two hours, and he really felt like he was being fooled. Before leaving, Shang Yiming told him that he could enjoy the blue sky, green trees, and beautiful natural scenery along the way, but at this time, the bus had already driven more than 20 kilometers out of the city, and along the way, he saw rumbling bulldozers crushing the broken stones and dead tree roots on the ground, working at full speed among the broken walls and rubbles; or some restaurants, car repair shops, family planning supply stores, and shroud shops with rough signboards and facades, listlessly opening their doors, waiting to swallow rare customers. Wherever the bus wheels passed, a puff of sand and dust often kicked up, which combined with the faint white smoke from the exhaust pipe, making the sky look gray. Li Wei squinted and almost fell asleep, catching a glimpse of Shang Yiming holding a few newspapers and frowning.

However, after the bus winds along the highway into the mountain, what is presented in front of you is finally as different as the scenery on the shade side of the mountain and the sunny side: the fresh green grass and rough trees draped from the top of the mountain dance shyly with the mountain breeze, the land at the foot of the mountain is occasionally filled with the fragrance of earth, which seems to be smelled through the car window, and the dense crops and sparse houses on the land outline a desolate rural picture, but only in this way does it preserve the traces of natural creation and rarely see the carved decoration of steel and concrete. Shang Yiming said that because the latitude here is higher than that of the city, coupled with the barrier of the mountains, the new season comes nearly 20 days later than the city every time. Li Wei was intoxicated by this scenery for a moment, and suddenly felt sad: Xiaoping loved this kind of scenery when she was in college, and she took herself to such a place to play when she had time, but the scenery in front of her could only be enjoyed by herself. Looking at Yiming at this time, he was still frowning, but the newspaper in his hand had changed a few times.

Heading into the deserted and verdant mountains, the bus stops at the side of a narrow asphalt road in the countryside, and tourists step out of the bus. Shang Yiming and Li Wei walked for another 10 minutes with their bags on their backs, and finally arrived at the farmhouse they had booked online, and the proprietress invited them in as enthusiastically as the hospitable mountains and the rich land. Before entering the courtyard, the platform built at the gate attracted Li Wei's attention, because there was also a pair of grinders on the platform, and when he got closer, he found that it was plastic, and it couldn't turn up. This farmhouse should be relatively large in the vicinity, the house is large and numerous, the yard is also very spacious, the proprietress seems to have kept it neat and standardized, and the waiters are uniformly wearing the kind of "peasant clothes" that peasant women wear when they work in the fields, and these girls are covered with sweat by this yellow uniform. "Hey, Linlin, come here. The proprietress called a waitress who was leaning against the wall and playing with her mobile phone, "Take these two gentlemen to the second room of the place." The waitress was in her thirties and wore a different white "farm suit" than the others, and only later did she know that this person was her assistant.

Sitting on the big kang in the room, putting down his backpack, Shang Yiming pressed his mobile phone to check the time. "It's only 10 o'clock, are you tired?" "I'm not tired, I'm almost suffocating in the bus." Since this is not far from the 'aura' temple, we might as well go and have a look now." ”

Li Wei landed on the muddy dirt road with his old sneakers, and he stepped on the fallen leaves, broken branches and small stones on the road, stretched out his arms to push aside the low branches that stretched out obliquely to "block the road", and saw that the winding road ahead was shrouded in the shadow of tall trees. The big trees in the mountains shaded the sunlight and filtered the air fresh and cool, and if Shang Yiming hadn't chosen such a difficult path, they would definitely feel extremely comfortable at this moment. "Look at this shortcut you picked!" Li Wei looked back at Shang Yiming, who was carefully studying the map, and complained, "Where did you pick up that guide map?"

"It wasn't picked up, it was attached to a tourist advertisement distributed by their county. "Shang Yi is not far from the picture," This is not a shortcut, but the only way. Refuel, 3000 meters athlete, according to the picture drawn, we are not far from it. ”

The two of them shuttled like this for about half an hour, and after walking down a steep downhill road, the shadows of the trees above their heads and the branches in front of them finally disappeared. "We're going to get around! Maps don't lie...... My dad said that. Shang Yiming took a few breaths and said happily. "That picture also says that there is only one way to cross this hill, right?" Li Wei's gaze shot straight to the bottom of the hill, Shang Yiming followed the past, but saw a wide asphalt road suddenly winding under the hill.

The road is very wide, with two motorized lanes and one non-motorized lane in each direction. "There is such a wide road, how can it not be marked on the map?" Shang Yiming said. "Not surprising. You see, the road is not finished. Sure enough, the road did not lead through the hill to the county seat and nearby villages, but only stopped at the bottom of the hill. Following Li Wei's direction, Shang Yiming saw that the road started at the foot of a mountain in the northwest and stretched all the way to only 200 meters long. "What's the matter with repairing such a small section, why don't you fix it?" Shang Yiming raised his head, but saw the temple gate and the wall on the top of the mountain. "There, Li Wei, the temple is there!"

Although the destination is far away, you will have to climb a section of the mountain to reach it. When they reached the top of the mountain, their breathing was seriously out of harmony. Li Wei remembered that three months ago, Xiaoping ridiculed him for not changing his face after running 3,000 meters at the school sports meeting, and it seemed that he was too bloated. Unfortunately, the last slope to the temple gate is right in front of you, but there are about 100 stone steps to climb to get there, so it's really the only way to get there. These steps, wide enough for large trucks, lead straight down the hillside to the temple gate, and when viewed upwards from the lowest level, the silhouette of the temple gate can be faintly seen in the shadow of the sky, giving the illusion of reaching to the sky.

Li Wei didn't know how long it took him and his old classmates to climb these steps before they finally touched the door of this temple. The pair of vicious stone lions and the plaques and couplets on the gate are very eye-catching, Li Wei fixed his eyes and saw that the temple gate was originally carved out in the center of the front wall, and this wall is more than five meters high, made of green bricks to make a square shape, and the top is also hung with green tiles along the beams and wood that cross the four corners. On both sides of the temple gate, two brick-blocked windows were made, painted with white paint, like two blind eyes staring ahead.

There is also a small arch on the left and right edges of the wall, perhaps because there are not many tourists today, the main gate is closed, and two small doors are opened for people to enter and exit. Li Wei and Shang Yiming sat on the steps in front of the door and looked at the tourists, judging from their faces and clothes, most of them were nearby villagers, and a few people from the city looked like some relaxed old men and old ladies. Suddenly, Shang Yiming quietly pointed forward and said in a low voice: "Look at those two people, they got off the car with us this morning, and they also live in our courtyard." ”

Following what he pointed to, Li Wei saw a man and a woman hovering in front of the small arch. It seemed that they were all from the city, the woman was about 35 years old, she looked like Sven, wearing a long skirt and high-soled sandals that were not suitable for playing in the wilderness, and a pair of sunglasses, but she looked very excited, and kept pointing, grinning and shaking the man's right arm, and her words and deeds were quite in line with the action norms recognized by today's high-quality white-collar workers; , as if he was in a hurry to show his sudden increase in net worth with this indecent dress. As for whether they got out of the car with him and lived in the same farmhouse, he was not impressed. However, he believed Yiming, because all those who knew Shang Yiming well knew that if he had noticed the face of any person at a certain time and place, he would definitely be able to recognize this person when he saw him again, and accurately tell the time and place of the first time he saw this person.

At this time, of course, he couldn't expect that this man and woman were the people who appeared in the corner with Shang Yiming that night.