"By the way, Uncle Li, there have been no problems with the steep straight road into the mountain recently, can you still walk?" After lunch, Lin Xiran, who insisted on paying for the meal, took the heavy cloth bag containing all the painting materials and painting tools that Xia Shuanghan took off from Hongyun's back before entering the house, and carried it on his shoulder. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Why did you remember to go that way?" Uncle Li, who was originally full of smiles and promised that he would take care of Lin Xiran and Xia Shuanghan's two mounts, was puzzled: "Don't you usually take that curve that is relatively smooth and has more people?" ”

"Isn't the main task today to take Miss Xia to paint!" Lin Xiran looked at Xia Shuanghan, who entered the stove room in order to fill the water bladder he brought, and replied: "Although the curve is easy to walk, it takes a long time, take the straight road to let Miss Xia arrive at her destination early and finish the painting early, and let Miss Xia go down the mountain early at night, right?" ”

"That's right!" Uncle Li nodded knowingly, "Then I'll go into the mountain with you!" There are basically no people walking on that road, there are more snakes, insects, rats and ants, if you are accidentally bitten by a snake, I can help you deal with the wound next to you. ”

"What's so embarrassing about that?" Lin Xiran waved his hand and declined.

"It's okay, anyway, I'm a forest guard, I have to go to the mountains a few times every day, which way to go? Wait for me for a while, and I'll go into the house and get a bottle of ointment for insect and snake bites. ”

In this way, the group of three embarked on the path into the mountain that Lin Xiran said. The team is headed by Lin Xiran, and Uncle Li is behind His Palace, what Uncle Li means: Since Lin Xiran is carrying things, let him walk in the front, and it is better to determine the speed of the team according to his pace. Xia Shuanghan did not express an opinion on this.

March is the time when the trees come back to life and the flowers are in full bloom. Walking on the rugged mountain road, the summer frost and cold who are greedy for scenery everywhere are quite interested.

"The scenery is very good along the way, and the road is really not too difficult to walk, so why don't other people want to walk?" Walking on the path of dirt, stones, and tree roots that crisscrossed the ground, Xia Shuanghan couldn't help but mutter.

"This road existed before the earth moved, so there were not many people who walked seven years ago, but after the earth moved, no one walked anymore." Lin Xiran, who was walking at the forefront, holding a wooden stick to "beat the grass and scare the snake", heard Xia Shuanghan's whispering, so he turned his head and explained: "Before the ground moved, there was a village of less than 300 people in the vast mountains, and when the ground moved, because of the landslide, all the people in the whole village died, and this path happened to pass next to the village, because I was afraid of being contaminated with unclean things, so no one left." ”

"I still remember that earthquake seven years ago." Xia Shuanghan recalled the past and said: "I remember that although the suburbs of Beijing shook violently at that time, it was not so that the whole village would not have a life, right? ”

"The villagers didn't die because of the ground movement." Lin Xiran shook his head and sighed: "When the village was first built, the site was chosen under a wooded hillside. A year or two before the earthquake, as the number of residents in the village increased, most of the tall trees on the hillside were cut down and used to build houses, until the year of the earthquake, there were no more trees left on the hillside. Lin Xiran, who was walking in front, said and stopped, turned his head and motioned for Xia Shuanghan to look in the direction he raised his hand, "Do you see that hillside over there?" ”

Xia Shuanghan followed Lin Xiran's instructions and looked over, only to see a hillside where all the trees growing on it were very young. The slope is different from the slope that Xia Shuanghan sees every day, and there is not only one slope. The slope of the hill has a turning point at two-thirds of the height, bounded by the turning point, the upper part of the turning point is more gentle, the lower part is very steep, and the turning point on the slope is a flat road about three feet deep.

"The landslide that destroyed the village happened on that hillside." Lin Xiran pointed to the hillside and continued: "The heavy rain and ground movement for several days have caused the mud and rolling stones in the upper half of the hillside to slide down the slope, because the lower half of the hillside is relatively steep, and there is a smooth turning part on the hillside, so the earthwork that slid down from the top did not slide down the ramp to the foot of the mountain, but flew out directly from the turning part (in fact, just like the physics problem, the landslide is connected to the desktop smoothly, and the slider slides off the landslide and then slides on the table for a distance, and then flies out from the edge of the table to do a flat throwing motion). ”

In order to make Xia Shuanghan better understand, Lin Xiran said while gesturing, "When the landslide occurred, it was late at night, and the earthwork that fell from the sky fell into the village and smashed through the houses of the villagers, and then many villagers in their sleep were directly smashed to death on the bed, and some villagers who did not die on the spot were also seriously injured and could not save themselves." At that time, the small peach blossom village outside the vast mountain was too busy to take care of itself because of the ground movement, and it was impossible to enter the mountain at that time, and when someone remembered this village in the mountain and brought the government officials into the mountain to investigate the situation, those seriously injured villagers who could not move had already been rescued and died. ”

"Heaven is a good reincarnation, who does the sky forgive? If the villagers hadn't cut down all the trees on the hillside, how could they have suffered a landslide? Therefore, people always have to pay a corresponding price for what they have done. Xia Shuanghan couldn't help but sigh leisurely, and when she realized that her statement was too ruthless, she turned her head to look at Lin Xiran and Uncle Li, and as expected, she saw the expression "Why do you think so" on their faces.

"Hmm......" Xia Shuanghan decided to change the subject, "Since all the villagers in the village have lost their lives, is the funeral matter taken over by the government?" ”

"Yes, it's run by the government. I've heard a few seniors say in the yamen," Lin Xiran said, taking another step forward, "Although the earthwork of the landslide fell from the sky, it didn't bury the whole village. After entering the village, the government people removed the bodies of the villagers from the rubble and handled the funeral for them. Of course, it was impossible to erect a tomb, they just dug two large tombs, separated the bodies according to men and women, and then placed them in the tombs in order according to their age, and then covered them with earth. After all these years, the place where the body was buried was overgrown with wild flowers and weeds, and it basically merged with the entire mountain forest. ”

"Let's stop talking about it." Uncle Li, who had been silent, opened his mouth: "Aren't you going to paint at the waterfall today?" Saying these things has affected Miss Xia's mood, what should I do if I can't draw well? ”

Xia Shuanghan smiled, and was about to say that the Rong people don't believe in ghosts and gods, so he is not afraid to listen to others talk about dead people. But before she could speak, she heard Uncle Li continue: "Why don't I sing you a song to adjust your mood?" ”

"Okay, Uncle Li, feel free to sing something!"

The loud singing echoed in the mountains and forests, and the startled birds flew over the top of the treetops. Xia Shuanghan listened to the song while admiring the wildflowers all over the mountains, thinking that this business was really not in vain, if Chaoyang could accompany him today, it would be really good. But when the group of three walked to the hillside near the ruins of the village, Xia Shuanghan's attention was attracted by something else.

"Lin Gongzi, is that flat land full of forsythia a place to bury the villagers?" On the hillside, Xia Shuanghan pointed to a flat land full of yellow flowers at the foot of the slope and asked Lin Xiran.

"yes, what's wrong?"

"Something is wrong with that land!" Xia Shuanghan stopped and looked at the flat land and said: "Look at that, there is a part of the land there that is very new in color, as if it has been renovated, and the forsythia on the ground is also crooked, as if it has been dug up and thrown back to the ground at will." ”

"Because it was made by wild beasts!" Uncle Li, who also stopped, also looked in that direction for a moment, and speculated: "When the villagers were just buried, there were also wild boars or something that went to the cemetery to make trouble, but fortunately the remains were buried deeply, otherwise they would have been gnawed by wild boars." ”

"It's possible that Uncle Li said it, but it's just ......" Xia Shuanghan, who still vaguely felt that something was wrong, turned his head in thought, and at the moment he looked at Lin Xiran, he had a flash of inspiration and asked: "Lin Gongzi, last autumn, you happened to be investigating the murder and theft of corpses in the suburbs of Beijing, right?" ”