Chapter 28: The River God Waterway (text)
This kind of evil rat will be retribution, it can be seen from the fact that it has followed Zhang Meng and them from a distance for so long, and now that it has disappeared, Zhao San also feels a little strange.
The queen rat is not a joke, the ordinary little rat bites people, at most tears off a piece of meat, and the queen of the rat takes a bite, and it is estimated that the whole head is gone.
"Not only the queen of rats, but there seem to be a lot fewer of those rats, have you found anything old ghost?"
Chen lame sighed secretly, it's not good, don't have any strange things here, so scared that these evil rats don't dare to come.
The sick man shook his head, but he didn't say anything, and he didn't seem to notice anything, he waved his hand and motioned for everyone to speed up.
Finally, a few people rushed to Shaoshan, it was already eight or nine o'clock at this time, there was no loud noise in the village, occasionally a few aunts passed by, and a young man didn't see it.
"It's so deserted here!"
Zhang Meng stuck out his tongue, a little surprised, but he was relieved when he thought about it, this kind of place is completely isolated from the world, and if you want to go out, unless you slaughter the two rats first, or you will live here for the rest of your life.
"The brothers are all foreigners, what's the matter with coming to our village?"
An old man with a white beard on his face was not far away, staring at Zhang Meng and a few of them asked with some confusion.
Zhang Meng was a little miserable at the moment, there were many scratches on his clothes that were tattered, and the two military backpacks were also covered with dust.
"Old man, don't blame us for being uninvited, the mission sent by the state, but we lost our direction in Devil's Mountain, and then we entered your village!"
Fu Bo answered the conversation familiarly, then took out a few pieces of paper with the official seal from his bag, and handed them to the old man with a smile on his face.
The old man happily took the piece of paper and glanced at it casually, not knowing whether he knew how to read, but it was evident that he was much more enthusiastic. In the nineties, the state civil service was still a very great position, and it was no problem to fool this old guy.
Zhang Meng was secretly surprised, it seems that Chen Cripple and they have made a lot of preparations when they came, and even the forged appointment letter has been done. But that's fine, with such a big tiger skin, it's much more convenient to come here to investigate the clues of this King of Guangchuan.
"Old man, why is there so little populated here, when I came here ten years ago, those strong men could be seen everywhere, why didn't I see any of them today?" Fu Bo asked with some doubts, Fu Bo's words were authentic Mandarin in Central China, with a strong Zhushan County accent, and there was no problem in communicating with this old man. Chen Cripple glanced around casually, and didn't go to grab the words, so that Fu Bo and the old man chattered.
"Alas, most of the prime of life in the village have been captured by bandits, and the rest have run away, leaving us old immortals, waiting to die!"
The old man took a puff of the golden leaf handed over by Fu Bo, took a big sip beautifully, and then said slowly.
"By the way, how many of you officials came from?"
The old man's expression was a little puzzled.
"Is there any other way to come to Shaoshan?" Zhang Mengqi said.
"Generally, the people who go out of Shaoshan are dry roads, that is, Shu roads, this road is too difficult to walk, and the people who go out in the village don't know how many people died in it." The old man shook his head and said, but there was not much sadness in his eyes.
Looking at the few people with a sudden realization, the old man seemed to think of something, and the muscles on his face suddenly became a little distorted, terrifying.
"You came here via the River Shinto?"
"What kind of river god road, we came here on a bamboo raft, and there are still a lot of wood, blocking the intersection!"
Fu Bo desperately looked at him, and when Zhang Meng reacted, the words had already blurted out.
The old man's bulging eyes stared at Zhang Meng, and he was a little hairy when he saw it, and suddenly the old man turned around and left. The eyes of several village wives around them also became unfriendly, and a few children threw small stones at them, but when Zhao San glared, these children scattered as birds and beasts.
"Fauber, did I just say something wrong?" Zhang Meng looked innocent.
"Silly boy, the people here worship the river god, and the people here probably worship this river as the river of the gods, and those who peeled off the skin back then were all thrown into this river, maybe we came from here to offend their beliefs."
Fauber was also a little unsure.
"There's something wrong with this old man!" Chen Cripple said a word softly, and then pondered, not knowing what to think.
A few people looked for a few families in the village, and finally met a Laizi.
When Lai Zi saw Grandpa Mao, his saliva immediately remained, and his originally hideous face changed at once, as if he was a distant relative of his family. I also went to the hunter next to me to ask for two pheasants that had just been caught, and I was going to cook when I lit the fire.
"I'm afraid there are a lot of people coming to this Shaoshan, otherwise this Grandpa Mao, Lai Zi can't make a deal with the river god?"
After Zhao San finished speaking, he went out to deal with Lai Zi, Zhao San usually made no less mistakes, and within ten minutes of going out, the two of them shouted for a short time, as if they were brothers who had not seen each other for decades. However, when Zhao San came back, his face was not very good-looking.
"This man's name is Ergou, and he usually loites around the village. However, a few years ago, the flow of people here suddenly increased dozens of times, from time to time some of the fallen masters came in, and even paid for the locals to be guides, and the second dog also went to fool people when he was fine, and after making a little money, he became addicted to smoking, and a few people sold some big cigarettes when they came here, and he is now saving money to wait for these people to come to the door. ”
"There used to be a mountain and ten bandits here, if you dare to come here, there is no team, it is purely looking for death! After the liberation, the situation stabilized, the Devil's Mountain Feng Shui geography is excellent, and the Warring States Period was also at the border point of several princes, large and small tombs are probably not less than a hundred, naturally become the eyes of some cultural relics dealers! ”
Chen Cripple nodded.
"Maybe on the River Shinto Road, the corpses we saw in the pile of sawdust were all corpses left by 'eating black'!"
'Eating black' means to plot against oneself when he fights, Zhang Meng thought about it, the corpses he saw were quite modern, and he also saw a pair of hiking boots, which were definitely not left by the ancients.
"Third uncle, are you saying that those corpses were 'blackened' for the people of this village?"
Zhang Meng was shocked, thinking of the smiling old man, this is impossible.
"It's very likely, you see that this is not a store in the village before, the corpse should have been thrown over in the past few years, it is estimated that it was made by the locals, anyway, pay more attention, if this old man has any bad behavior, reward him with two steel beads first!"
Chen Cripple said coldly, he observed things most carefully, and the appearance of those corpses just now had already aroused his suspicions.
At this moment the two pheasants were also cooked for Raiko, and he took out a pot of cloudy wine, broke the stopper, and licked the corners with some covetousness, for fear of wasting a drop. Then he was about to stand up and pour wine for Zhang Meng and them, Zhang Meng was nauseous for a while, and hurriedly said that he didn't drink.
Although this Laizi is said to be delicious and lazy to make, the taste of pheasant roast is really good, all the fat and oil under the skin of the pheasant are roasted, and one bite goes down, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, full of sesame oil. In addition, Zhang Meng and they have not eaten a meal seriously in the past two days, and when they smell the fragrance at this time, several people are moving their index fingers, and the two pheasants will eat all at once.
I said...... Said you strangers, if you have a pot of wine after a meal, if you have a big bag of cigarettes to smoke, you will be alive and immortal in that day, and you have to go to the river god road to find something messy...... Messy stuff. Life is gone, what is there to enjoy! ”
Na Laizi drank a lot of wine, and his tongue swirled a little when he spoke.
"Are there a lot of outsiders going to the river god waterway?"
The corner of Chen's cripple eyes moved, and he asked with a smile, but his hand poured wine for this laizi without a trace.