Blue Mountain Ridge.

It's a five-hour drive from Lake Am Na Creek. Life in the Blue Mountains is very slow-paced, and it's not like people in big cities who are always in a hurry every day, and they want to use one day as if it were two days.

Early in the morning, in those small restaurants lined up, the elderly, even some middle-aged people, would always get a little snack, a plate of chili, and then open a bottle of wine, and drink it from the morning.

Don't be in a hurry, don't rush anything, slow down the pace of life, and the money will never be earned. This is the attitude of the people of Blue Mountain Ridge.

Ai Xiaohai deeply realized it as soon as he came.

From the moment he got out of the car, his pace slowed down naturally.

Since there was still an hour and a half from the Blue Mountains to Kang Shijun's home, Ai Xiaohai was already more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived here, so he opened a hotel and stayed there.

The hostess is very enthusiastic, but the efficiency is too slow.

In big cities, when staying in hotels and hotels, they use ID card readers, and everything comes out with a "drop" on the ID card online, but here, they still have to be registered manually.

A thick passenger check-in register, the proprietress wrote very slowly against the ID card, wrote twice, and did not forget to raise her head and chat with Ai Xiaohai for a few words, asking about the situation in Xinan. Speaking of which, I was actually interested, put the pen down, and didn't register, so I chatted with Ai Xiaohai about Xinan.

"What's so good about that?" Anyway, I can't leave today, Ai Xiaohai simply said: "There are high-rise buildings everywhere, and people are like being locked in cages." The air quality is also poor. If I had to change me, I'd rather live here. ”

"You can't say that." The chubby proprietress smiled: "We people in this small place always want to go to the big city; What about people in big cities? And always want to come to a small place like ours. What do you think is this? ”

Ai Xiaohai smiled: "I don't think the development of the Blue Mountain Range is enough?" I have been to Harke City and Huyan Naxi, and the tourism development is good, why don't the Blue Mountains develop tourism resources? ”

"What do you think we have here?" She is not enthusiastic about this proprietress at all, and she also represents the thoughts of most ordinary people in Blue Mountain Ridge: "Mountain, besides mountains or mountains, who wants to come to us to play?" Besides, we just have to live our own lives, and there are more people from outside. Isn't it a mess? Each place has its own rules. Anyway, we don't like to have so many outsiders come every year. ”

Well, that's the matter of their attitude to life.

The people of Blue Mountain Ridge are accustomed to living this peaceful and comfortable life......

A simple registration took more than an hour. Ai Xiaohai entered the hotel at dawn and waited until it was done. I went into the room, put down my luggage, and came out. It's getting dark.

Take a look. When it was time for dinner, Ai Xiaohai asked the proprietress what was delicious nearby, and the proprietress suddenly became more enthusiastic. tried his best to get him to eat at a restaurant next to the hotel, and he didn't shy away from telling him that it was opened by his sister.

Cheng, who is it not to do business with?

As soon as he entered the hotel of the proprietress's sister, Ai Xiaohai was immediately eye-opened.

There are four or five tables of guests eating, the dishes are all served, and there is actually a mahjong table in the innermost, and four people play mahjong there.

Ai Xiaohai found an empty seat and sat down, and after a long while, no one came to greet him, and finally Ai Xiaohai couldn't help it: "Order food, eat." ”

"Hey, wait, wait, I'll come after this fight." The sound actually came from the mahjong table.

Ai Xiaohai laughed and laughed.

The hostess said that the restaurant belonged to her sister, named Jinhua. Now looking? Good guy, the proprietress actually played mahjong at the meal?

Looking at those guests again, it seems that they are not surprised, they don't care at all, and from time to time there are people who come over to take a look and comment on whether the cards played right or wrong.

It's easy to wait until a handful of cards are played, Jinhua came over, and when she saw Ai Xiaohai, she said: "Ouch, outsiders, face sheng." Don't order food, anyway, you don't know that our side is good, I'll arrange it for you, one meat, one vegetarian and one soup. Drinking no? If you drink wine, add a dry bar, and it will taste delicious. ”

Ai Xiaohai didn't even have a chance to interject. Yes, whatever your eldest sister Jinhua says, it's what it is.

"Boss, hurry up and stir-fry, don't let the guests wait."

As soon as Jin Hua screamed, a fat man stood up at the mahjong table, and swayed into the kitchen.

Served, served, Ai Xiaohai was really convinced. At this meal, everyone in the restaurant was playing mahjong.

"You sit down first, the food will be ready soon, and we'll finish with two more cards." After Jin Hua finished speaking, she quickly patted the shoulder of a guest at the next table: "Old Duan, hurry up and take the handle, and finish the fight." ”

The guest Lao Duan wiped his mouth, and actually walked to the mahjong table in a hurry.

Ai Xiaohai is also an eye-opener here......

The dish came up, Ai Xiaohai tasted it, not to mention, the taste was really good, especially the dry bar recommended by Jinhua, it was really fragrant.

The dishes were also served, the mahjong was finished, and Jinhua came up to greet Ai Xiaohai with a smile.

It's time for a few people in the restaurant to eat, and the restaurant here is not like the staff in other city restaurants, who either eat early or wait until the guests have almost eaten themselves. The guests are eating, and they are eating.

Jinhua's husband, that fat man Ai Xiaohai heard other guests call him "Niu Da", probably a nickname or something.

Niu Da made a few dishes, and when he saw his wife chatting with the young man, he simply put the dishes on Ai Xiaohai's table: "Little brother, from out of town?" Let's eat together. ”

Hey, not at all.

Ai Xiaohai nodded, Niu Da beckoned his daughter-in-law and the two waiters in the restaurant, sat down around the table, took out a jar of wine, and poured it into the bowl in front of Ai Xiaohai: "Taste, taste, I brewed it myself, you will never be able to drink it." ”

That old Duan hurriedly took the empty bowl from his table: "Niu Da, come to a bowl." ”

Niu Da immediately generously poured a full bowl of wine for Lao Duan.

Good guy, his daughter-in-law Jinhua actually poured a big bowl for herself. This made Ai Xiaohai suddenly think of Yin Yunuo. Are the women in these places particularly good at drinking?

"Little brother, come, take a big bite."

Ai Xiaohai's amount of alcohol was too ordinary, but he couldn't resist the other party's enthusiasm, so he raised the bowl and took a big sip.

Spicy and choking, this is the first feeling in the mouth. It can go from the mouth to the throat, but it is like a thread, and when it reaches the stomach, it is warm and comfortable.

Although Ai Xiaohai doesn't understand wine, he has also heard it said. Good wine is like a line. It seems that Niu Da is not bragging.

Small talk. As soon as she heard that Ai Xiaohai was staying in her sister's hotel next door, and that Ai Xiaohai came here to eat was also introduced by her sister, Jinhua suddenly became happy: "Ouch, I said why did you come." ”

"Your sister hasn't been here for dinner in a while." Niu Dakou said: "I'm sorry to be drunk last time, right?" ”

Jin Hua glared at her husband fiercely: "You are embarrassed to say." It wasn't you who desperately poured my sister that time. Can my sister get drunk? ”

"Didn't she just drink a pound and a half of wine?" Niu Da muttered.

Ai Xiaohai was stunned. Can a woman drink a pound and a half of such fierce and spicy wine? Don't say so much about him. Even if it is half a catty, it is estimated that it will be put down.

"My sister's name is Wanghua." Jinhua didn't see Ai Xiaohai either: "It's not easy to guard that store." I'm still a big cow. She is alone, Zhang Luo's ...... Niu Da, go and call my sister. Let Xiaoshun next door help her look at the store. ”

"Hey, I'll go."

"Where's her husband?" Ai Xiaohai asked tentatively.

"She's a man?" Jinhua took another big sip of wine and said hatefully: "It's dead!" ”

He's dead? But looking at the appearance of Jinhua, I'm afraid that the man named Wanghua is not dead, right?

"You say that this kind of man, who has thrown away his wife and children, has not heard from him for so many years as soon as he leaves, what is the difference between him and death?"

Jin Hua was talking hatefully, but Wanghua came in with Niu Da: "Jin Hua, what are you talking nonsense? Didn't my man talk to me on the phone last month? ”

"You, you always say that you are a good man." Jin Hua pulled her sister to sit down, let the man put on the dishes and chopsticks, and poured wine: "I just come to such a phone call once in a few months, and the family doesn't care about it, and I won't come back for a reunion during the New Year, do you think this is still like a family man?" ”

Wanghua smiled: "It's not that he doesn't want to come back, it's that he doesn't dare to come back." ”

Ai Xiaohai seemed to hear something, and the man who looked at the flowers should have committed something and ran out.

This is a private matter, and it is inconvenient for him to ask more.

"Hey, little brother, my man also worked in Xinan." Wanghua suddenly said: "That was a few years ago, he called me, saying that he was working in Xinan, and in a very large factory, the boss was very good to him and remitted me 20,000 yuan." Sister, you always say that he has no conscience, and he doesn't forget to send money to his family every year. ”

"Dalong is a good man." At this time, Lao Duan at the table on the side simply moved the bowl and chopsticks to this table, and did not forget to bring the dishes he ate: "You said back then, who didn't know Dalong's righteousness? Who of us has a difficulty, as long as we find Dalong, he will not refuse. If it weren't for his punch back then...... Ay. It's true that you say it's true, Dalong is doing a good deed and saving people, our police here are not too willing to arrest him, otherwise, he can run away for so many years? ”

They were chatting there, and Ai Xiaohai probably understood what was going on.

More than ten years ago, Wanghua's husband, named Dalong, saw two little hooligans at night forcing a little girl to do something bad, so he rushed up and fought with the two little hooligans.

Dalong has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he punched hard, but one of them couldn't be contained, and he actually beat one of them to a serious injury. Dalong was frightened, and quickly ran home, told his daughter-in-law about it, took some money and ran away.

The hooligan was finally rescued, but the police said that Dalong was overly defended and had violated the law. However, everyone knows each other, and the police also know Dalong's character, so they are not particularly embarrassed, and they do a simple investigation, and they do not pursue Dalong excessively.

As a result, Dalong has been running for more than ten years. Every now and then, he keeps sending money back, but no one knows what he's doing outside.

"If you want me to say, Dalong is stupid." Lao Duan sighed: "I shouldn't have run in the first place, isn't my nephew a policeman?" I asked him, and he said that if Dalong hadn't run in the first place. The worst result is to stay in prison for two years, otherwise wouldn't this have come out earlier? It's not a glorious thing for others to go to prison, but who dares to look down on Dalong when he comes out? Foolish, you guys are really confused. ”

Also, Ai Xiaohai agreed with Lao Duan's statement in his heart.

Many people who break the law on impulse first think of running, and as a result, they run for more than ten years, or even decades. Hiding in Tibet all day long, panicking all day, hearing the sound of sirens. I was scared when I saw the police. These people don't want to think about it either. If you hadn't run away and been rescued after a few years in prison, why should you be like a lost dog?

However, outsiders think so, and the real thoughts of the parties are only known to them.

"Hey. I remembered it too. Dalong worked in Xinan. Niu Da patted his brain: "What's the place?" Sky. What did the hell come about? ”

"Tianzi Group?" Ai Xiaohai didn't know why he blurted out.

"Yes, yes, Tianzi Group!" Wanghua said in a loud voice: "Little brother." Do you know? ”

Do I know? Ai Xiaohai smiled bitterly, why did he get in touch with the Deng family again? He took a sip of wine: "Yes, that's a big group in our Xinan." ”

"Hey, it's a pity that he's not there now, otherwise I can really ask you to help me find it." Wanghua sighed.

Looking for it? He and the Liang Zi of the Deng family got married.

"Don't talk about that, don't talk about it." Jin Hua saw that the atmosphere was a little embarrassed, and quickly changed the topic: "Little brother, are you here to travel to the Blue Mountain Range?" ”

"I'll stay here for one night, and tomorrow I'll go to the old goose head." Ai Xiaohai replied casually.

"Old goose head?" Several locals shouted together, and Niu Da's eyes widened and asked, "Little brother, what are you going to do there?" It was the poorest place in our Blue Mountain Range, and there was no road for the car to drive. Not to mention going to tourism, there is no place for you to play, and now there is a snake plague there. ”

"Snake plague?" Ai Xiaohai's heart moved.

He's here for the snake.

"You ask Lao Duan, he is the old goose-headed man." Niu Da pointed to the old section.

"I haven't been back in years." Lao Duan wiped his oily mouth: "The name of the old goose head comes from the Song Dynasty......"

He is a chatter, and he actually introduced the experience of the name of the old goose head first, and then said unhurriedly: "In fact, when it comes to the snake plague, it is not a matter of a year or two, I heard the old generation say that there were not many snakes in the old goose head, but more than a hundred years ago, suddenly there were more snakes." And strangely enough, there are all kinds of snakes. Southern, northern, and some are not our local snakes at all. In those years, people were bitten by snakes every year. Luckily, I survived. Unlucky, he died within a few days of being bitten by a snake.

Some time ago, a relative of mine came from the old goose head, and I invited him to have a meal, ah, Niu Da, he was in your hotel that day, no wonder you know that there was a snake plague there, it turned out that you listened to it. Yes, the old goose head made a snake plague, and it started more than a year ago. A year ago, there were suddenly more snakes in the old goose's head, and snakes could be seen everywhere in the mountains and fields, and even in the villages, snakes appeared unscrupulously in broad daylight......

Those snakes are rampant to the point of arrogance, they are not afraid of people at all, they swagger across the road in broad daylight, and attack people from time to time.

It stands to reason that for more than a hundred years, the old goose-headed man has never dealt with snakes, but there has never been such a thing as this one. They had a way of dealing with snakes, and they killed quite a few of them. But no matter how many snakes they killed, the number of snakes that poured into the village only increased, not decreased.

Sometimes, a few villagers were bitten by snakes in one day.

The village really had no choice, so they asked the county for help, and the county invited a few experts in snakes, and something unexpected happened. Several experts were bitten by snakes on the same day, and one was bitten so badly that he died before being sent to the county hospital.

This time, which other expert dares to enter the old goose head?

"I can't live anymore, I really can't live anymore." Lao Duan said helplessly: "You said that in the event of a natural disaster, there is still government relief, right?" But when you encounter a snake plague, and the experts can't do anything, how do you let people live? In the end, the county had no choice but to apply for special funds to relocate the villagers of the old goose head. ”

"Well, the guest houses in the county are full." Wanghua said: "I have also been notified, and a group of villagers will live in tomorrow, and they will stay until the snake plague of the old goose head is resolved." When did you say that when we grew up to be so big, when did you hear that snakes can drive away everyone in a village? ”

It's weird, it's really weird this time.

Originally, he was just here to help Kang Shijun's mother find an antidote, but who would have thought that he would hear about a snake plague.

The old goose head is Kang Shijun's hometown, and Ai Xiaohai estimates that the key to solving the problem is there. But now the snake plague has complicated the matter.

A snake plague more than a year ago? At that time, I was in Huyan Naxi, and after killing the snake, don't you kill the snake queen yourself, and let those snakes that have lost their command run to the head of the old goose?

Impossible, absolutely impossible! What does the snake do all the way from Lake Yan Naxi to the old goose's head?

"Little brother, don't go." Niu Da kindly persuaded him: "You are young, don't go in and die, you want to play, there are also some places to play in the Blue Mountain Range, I will take you to see it tomorrow." ”

Ai Xiaohai thanked the other party for his kindness: "No, I have something very urgent to go there, I must go." Boss Niu, I beg you something, I just heard that the road there is not easy to walk, is there any transportation that can be reached quickly? ”

Niu Da thought for a while and said: "That's it, if you have to go, I'll ask my relatives to drive you to the neighborhood tomorrow, and then I'll borrow you a bicycle. ”

"Boss Niu, thank you so much!" (To be continued......)