Story 26: The Ghost Village (3)
That year, I led a team to the Daxing'an Mountains in the northeast, where there are many mountains, and the railways are opened between the mountains.
I and many of the team members were the first time to see such a dense forest, so we were very excited, I was still a newcomer, I was inexperienced, and it was the first time I walked this road, so I invited a local villager to be a guide, this guide is almost sixty years old this year, is an old hunter of the Oroqen tribe.
I remember that it was a day in September, when the weather in the northeast was already cold, but I could still pick some mushrooms, pine seeds, and some unknown wild fruits in the mountains.
Everyone was talking and laughing as they walked forward, picking some small wild fruits that the guide said they could eat...... Suddenly, the weather was fine, but a strong wind blew out of nowhere, and it broke up the team, and after the wind stopped, I counted the number of people, and my heart chuckled.
Because it was originally a team of 15 people, now there is one less person!
This person is Mr. Huang from Shandong, the owner of one of his car 4S shops, who has the straightforwardness of Shandong people, and his figure is also very strong, how can he not be blown away by a gust of wind!
So everyone divided into several teams and began to search for Mr. Huang in the vicinity, but there was no trace of Mr. Huang.
The local guide was also very anxious, Gu said, the trees here are dense and the grass is high, not to mention outsiders, even the locals do not often walk on the mountain, and it is easy to walk the "Mada" mountain, which is their Northeast dialect, that is, to get lost.
So I hurriedly called all the team members back, because I was afraid that if Mr. Huang was not found by then, a few more would be lost, and it would be a big problem!
Fortunately, this guide is an Oroqen man, although he doesn't go up the mountain to hunt much now, but he can still observe whether there are traces of people walking on the ground according to some lodging of plants on the ground.
With years of experience, he told me that Mr. Huang should have gone east alone!
"Did he walk over? Are there any traces of dragging? "I'm afraid that Mr. Huang let some big beast run away.
But the guide told me with certainty that there was no trace of the wild beast, only the footprints of the burly Mr. Huang alone.
So the guide took everyone and followed the footprints left by Mr. Huang all the way to the east to find ......
We hurried along the way, and finally half an hour later, we saw Huang Xian's trace, it turned out that he was unloading some supplies from a military truck with three soldiers from the army.
"Mr. Huang, why did you come here, let's find it!" I said to Mr. Huang with some anger.
But just as I was about to step forward, I was stopped by the guide next to me, and then he made a silent gesture to everything, and then turned back to me and asked, "Do you have cigarettes on you?" ”
I was a little stunned when he asked me this, but I still answered him truthfully: "Yes!" With that, I took out half a pack of cigarettes and handed it to him.
After the guide took the cigarette case, he took out three of them, lit them with a lighter, and then he walked alone and slowly walked towards the few people who were unloading the car.
It's strange to say, Mr. Huang, who didn't listen to his name just now, stopped what he was doing and stood there straight and didn't move.
The guide walked up to them, handed three cigarettes to the three soldiers, and said a few words to them, after which the three soldiers turned and got into the big truck, and drove away.
At this time, Mr. Huang, who was motionless just now, seemed to have sobered up all of a sudden, and shouted at me: "Why is there such a thing as helping the comrades of the People's Liberation Army in this activity!" ”
I was also confused by his question, so I said to him angrily: "What are you doing to help the People's Liberation Army!" You run so far alone, how long will we all be looking for you, you know? ”
As soon as Mr. Huang heard what I said, his face turned a little pale, and then the guide stopped me in time and signaled me not to say more, let's go down the mountain first! So our group returned to the camp at the foot of the mountain from the same way.
Later, the guide said to me, "Don't you think those three soldiers are a little strange?" ”
When he asked me this, I thought about it carefully, there was something wrong with these three people, first of all, their clothes were too old! How do they look like the soldiers in the sixties and seventies, wearing similar styles, and then there is a lot of mud on their bodies, as if they have just crawled out of the mud pit.
The guide looked at the team members on the left and right, they were all eating, and no one looked at us, so he whispered to me: "There is a railway in the mountain in front of me, and when the tunnel was opened and built decades ago, when the cannon was fired, three soldiers who pulled supplies were killed. ”
When I heard this, I was immediately frightened and stupid, I had never seen any ghosts and monsters when I grew so big, and when the guide saw that my face was not good, he said to me again: "You are also afraid, they have no malice, maybe they are just too lonely, and they want to find someone to accompany them for a while, I have been in the mountains for so many years, and I know that people who walk this mountain road can often encounter these evil things, light them three cigarettes, and they will understand that you know that they are ghosts, and he will leave with interest, and never hurt people's lives." ”
I remembered what the guide had just said to them. So I asked him, "What did you just tell them?" ”
The guide smiled mysteriously and said, "I told them that this place is likely to become a tourist area in the future, and when there are more tourists, they will naturally not feel lonely!" ”
After listening to Liu Gang talk about his experience, several people felt the wind in the back of their necks, and their hearts were cold, Liu Gang glanced at his watch, and said to everyone: "Okay, everyone's body is almost baked, go back to the tent to rest now, and let's continue to walk forward tomorrow." ”
Because there are two tents in total, Liu Gang and Ah live in one, Zhiming and Chunjiao live in one, in fact, three people can squeeze in a tent, but Chunjiao is afraid that it is not safe to live alone, so Zhiming lives with her, anyway, everyone is in the wild, so they don't care about those secular rules, and everything is safety.
Maybe it's because they're so tired, everyone almost just lies down and falls asleep, Liu Gang went outside to check in the first half of the night, and he also fell asleep in the second half of the night.
The next morning, everyone got up to take a look, and suddenly there was a cheer, and the fog on the road finally dissipated! So the group of four hastily ate something and began to hit the road.
The car walked forward for a while, and everyone found that the road ahead was very steep, this is an S-shaped winding mountain road, one side is the bottomless valley, with last night's visibility to walk this road, it is definitely nine deaths, it seems that Liu Gang's choice to camp in situ is still correct.
Under everyone's praise, Liu Gang scratched his head embarrassedly and said: "As a professional outdoor team leader, at all times, the personal safety of the team members is the first priority. ”